Occupying a focal point in the rotunda gallery of the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, this media installation tells the story of Native peoples' healing traditions.
Sparking imaginations, evoking emotions and ideas—Second Story creates memorable motion, sound, and video installations that set the stage for truly engaging experiences. Content and original rich media are integrated into reactive, dynamic installations and holistic environments that foster consistent, immersive experiences for a wide range of audiences. Effective and inspiring immersive environments are the fruit of a collaborative development process that forms an interpretive interactive media strategy within a larger environmental framework.
This gallery of interactives creates a treasury of first-person accounts of Native medicine in action.
This cinematic media wall creates a captivating environment for visitors to interact through a fun, surprising, full body experience that reveals stories from around the world.
A large-scale video projection in the heart of the Age of Mammals hall establishes the core theme of the exhibition: that as continents move, climates change, and mammals evolve.
Four crescent table surfaces function as dynamic menus to access a vast vault of imagery, artwork, artifacts, audio, and video that reveal Walt Disney’s creative evolution throughout the post WWII years.
Historic photographs, an environmental sound installation, and an interactive guest book transports visitors into the past to learn about the spectacular history of the Marion Davies Guest House.
Immersing visitors in the musical celebration that marks the GRAMMYs, this 30-foot media experience weaves together high-intensity performances, sound design, and custom animations in a spectacular display.
An expansive mirrored wall displays real-time financial information in poetic, animated visualizations.
Two cinema-sized screens dramatically flank the room’s entrance, presenting larger-than-life previews of the treasures on display inside the Exploring the Early Americas exhibition.
As visitors arrive at the National World War I Museum they confront the faces of men and women of the Great War who are identified and interpreted in these media installations.
As an overture to the McCormick Freedom Museum, a 30-foot media wall orchestrates people throughout time exercising, challenging, celebrating, and defending freedom.
As an overture to an exhibition about the history of forensic medicine, visitors first encounter a draped body on an examining table backed by a floor-to-ceiling video projection.
A raw industrial space, transformed into an immersive underwater world through giant video projections, serves as an environmental backdrop to a contemporary music performance.
A sixteen-foot-wide display of shifting color dynamically reacts to individuals entering this exhibition, activating illuminating light that reveals the origins of American democracy in images and animations.
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