Interactive Technology : A Story On Screens

The audience will interact with the exhibition not only through viewing photos, but also through the use of technology. In one gallery, multiple videos and scenes will depict the civil rights era audibly and visually, displaying on multiple screens the important people who played a major role in the Black community today and in the continuous fight for equality. On the screens will be interviews of people like Shaun King, Tamekia Brown, and victims of inequality sharing their viewpoints on certain photos in the exhibition, as well as their knowledge of the civil rights movement. There will also be other documents such as newspapers and articles from the era, movie scenes that show the depth of emotions flowing during the movement, as well as rare footage of protesters during the 1960s. The screens will all play at once, creating an overwhelming feeling, evoking the same feelings of the people who were fighting during that movement and who are fighting now. The interview videos will only have the sound, meanwhile, the footage of protesters will be silent. Movie scenes will play on command, by the touch of the visitor through a remote. The whole purpose of this interactive technology is to inspire empathy, a feeling that can be shared and understood through the artists and viewers. The many videos will allow the visitors to feel that through the simplicity of just listening. In society today, Black people are ignored and shut out from the table of wants and needs. There is not a seat assigned to them and unfortunately, there never has been. This exhibition’s technology would be created to finally give a seat to the Black community.