Interactive Technology

As viewers explore the Impacts of a Divided America: The Faces Behind the Civil Rights Movement, they may walk into the interactive technology room, located in Room 215 on the right. Featuring a handicapped-accessible portable photo booth camera and an iPad, the technology will provide a fun virtual experience that captures a moment during the civil rights movement. The screen and iPad will be placed side by side against the small narrow section of the room. Viewers will face towards the camera and use the iPad to choose which photo from the exhibition they would like to recreate. Once chosen, the photo will be enlarged on the iPad and manipulated using green screens and filters to create the background. Subjects will recreate the photo by posing as the subject in any photograph chosen from the exhibition. The camera will then upload the picture via Bluetooth and capture the subject in the exact scene of the photograph. The picture will then be released from the side of the portable photo booth as white and black to aid in the recreation of the movement. The High Museum of Art will be printed on the bottom of the printed photograph. The iPad is connected with Bluetooth to the photo booth, which will aid in transferring the format of the selected photograph to the photo booth to be manipulated.  Also, a speaker will be placed inside the room which will emit sounds that one might hear when protesting or voting during the civil rights movement. Viewers will leave the interactive room with a better understanding of the different perspectives during the movements. Subjects who interact with the technology will experience a visual and auditory view of voting and protesting life as an African American during the civil rights movement. Overall, the technology will immerse viewers in a unique and comprehensive environment that allows them to be a part of history.