This spatial exploration by CCT student Sam Redd used light, sensors, sound, and scent to craft a uniquely personalized experience of Old North’s staircase. As visitors moved up the stairs, their movements triggered a series of complementary low tones and subtle sound effects. These musical compositions were inspired by the Mosler paintings on display in Old North.…
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Tango with Mosler
Augmented Reality (AR) allows you to experience space in a new way. This AR game, created by CCT student Ramón Zamora using Tango and Unity, was designed to explore the way that a space is created and interpreted uniquely by each person. Visitors held a small tablet, which seemed to mirror the space around them. As…
Ring, Ring for a Riot!
This project by CCT students Maria Elena Firippis and Sam Redd was programmed with Processing and used range sensors, Raspberry Pi, and arduinos to create a visual representation of the movements of visitors to the installation. A screen flickers wildly, shifting colors and shapes as two images fight for the same digital space. The images…
Virtual Pilgrimage
This exhibit by students Martín Mazzeo and Xi Wang uses an Oculus Rift headset to offer visitors a virtual experience of the Old North staircase as a self-contained world. The proportions and measurements of the virtual model reflect the physical dimensions of the building. But the virtual world is not the same as the one…
Remix: Soundtrack to Betsy Ross
This video remix by CCT student Liz Sabatiuk combines footage from the short film by Media Production students Fatima Al-Dosari and Dur Kattan with a soundtrack by Sam Redd inspired by Mosler’s painting The Birth of the Flag. Betsy Ross from Liz Sabatiuk on Vimeo.
Remix: Soundtrack to Washington Crossing the Delaware
The painting: Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Henry Mosler The soundtrack: Sam Redd, MA student in Georgetown University’s CCT Program “I began to think about the 6-7 hour crossing as the men in the painting (and not in the painting) would have experienced it. These men were cold and scared; some of them were likely…
The Triumphal Victory of the Bonhomme Richard (John Paul Jones)
“I have not yet begun to fight!” ~John Paul Jones About John Paul Jones Originally from Scotland, Jones was sympathetic to the Americans’ struggle for freedom from British colonial rule. After war broke out in 1775, Jones volunteered for service in the Continental Navy. His greatest victory came in September 1779. Jones knew the rich British…
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Henry Mosler’s depiction of George Washington crossing the Delaware River stands in contrast to a famous 1851 painting of the same event by Emanuel Leutze. Leutze’s depiction of George Washington is one of an aggressive, confident man who is sailing over tumultuous waters, where Mosler’s painting depicts a serene Washington wading through blocks of ice. In addition, the…
The Birth of the Flag
The Birth of the Flag was painted in 1911 by Henry Mosler, just 9 years before he died. It is oil on canvas. Mosler was hugely influenced by the old masters and their paintings. He spent time in Europe studying their artwork through sketching and drawing from their work for three years. And just as…
MISSING: Ring, Ring for Liberty!
In 1971, one of Georgetown’s Henry Mosler paintings, Ring, Ring for Liberty disappeared. Only its frame remained. “‘Ring, Ring for Liberty’ depicts the ringing of the Liberty Bell in Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. It represents a moment that signified the signing of the Declaration of Independence and therefore the birth of…