Holographic exhibition

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Dear Collegues

Professor Michael Archer (UNSW) and I are currently advising the producers of an
international touring holographic exhibition, currently in preproduction stage.
The theme of the exhibition is the evolution of life on Planet Earth (not a
small project!!) - a sort of greatest hits of palaeontology as it were. The use
of unique large format holographic technology will allow for many life-size
representations of prehistoric animals. Enlargments of minute or microscopic
organisms will also be possible. The producers are wishing to tell a
multi-layered story with many levels and subtexts, integrating the holograms
with a variety of interactive methodologies and depicting the subjects in
various guises e.g. as fossils, models, CT scans etc. Each hologram will contain
many images or special effects which will be experienced depending on exactly
where the viewer is standing in relation to the hologram. These could include an
interactive sound track triggered by movement sensors, the position of the
different continental land masses and time line in a corner of each hologram or
even the smell of rotting dinosaur flesh after a cometary impact!!

The exhibition is scheduled to be available in mid 1987 and it is already
receiving enthusiastic support from institutions both in Australia and overseas.
The producers wish to have an internationla flavour and draw on a wide range of
specialist expertise. If you have a significant site, trackway, strange beast,
prehistoric happening, key evolutionary event or other suitable subject that you
would like transported into the 'laser dimension' or if your institution would
like to receive more information about the travelling exhibition itself, please
contact me by e-mail.

Regards


Brian Mackness
University of New South Wales
internet: 100252.3452@compuserve.com
61 + 74 + 948260 (fax)
61 + 74 + 948490 (voice)