<p align="CENTER">Final Project Essay</p>
<p align="LEFT">My vision of society in 2100 involves the remaining survivors of the end of the world living in a spaceship colony. This place would be consisting of various shuttles serving different purposes in space, such as the grocery shuttle, the school shuttle, the town hall shuttle, etc. People would travel to my museum shuttle in the same way they would travel to any other shuttle, via their space-car. The first museum shuttle of mine opened up in the colony of Jetsonia, and was built in four mushroom-type structures connected by a central eco-dome that housed a grassy hill and a stage.</p>
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<p align="LEFT">The four buildings surrounding the dome would each take in one group of four at a time to holographic cubicle type rooms that were sectioned off so that each individual in the group had their own separate room, but were all part of a larger room once the cubicle walls were dropped. Each viewer would then begin to view the four pieces I've chosen for preservation in chronological order, starting with the Arnolfini Wedding portrait, Kant's <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i>, then Muybridge's <i>Horse in Motion</i> and Jimi Hendrix's rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.</p>
<p align="LEFT">The original Arnolfini Wedding portrait would be kept safe in a state shuttle somewhere downtown, but the piece will be experienced through hologram in the museum. After a short introduction of the painter, time, and place the work was conceived, the spectator would see the portrait's setting materialize from the walls in a three-dimensional image. The spectator could then view in great detail the entire room, back to front thanks to the striking detail in the mirror behind the Arnolfinis, and play a scavenger hunt for four details in the piece, such as the tree in the window, the oranges on the table, and the journey of Christ in the mirror. One could walk around the room and see behind the couple, experience the air of the setting that van Eyck created, and as they find the details, they have explained to them what they symbolized in the 15<sup>th</sup> century.</p>
<p align="LEFT">The piece exemplifies the innovation in early Renaissance art to different painting mediums and a striking degree of true-to-life detail in the three-dimensional space. Jan van Eyck produced a masterpiece of both secular and religious themes, unlike most of the religiously motivated art of the late Middle Ages. Without formal training in linear perspective, unlike those in Italy, he portrayed his couple in a three-dimensional space convincingly with a special degree of detail unheard of before him. Future generations could glean from this that art can exist for a variety of reasons, come from a variety of places, and be created in a variety of ways. This piece should incite people to broaden their creative capacities beyond what they see around them.</p>
<p align="LEFT">The time will eventually run out for the scavenger hunt, for which there will be no reward for winning or punishment for losing. The room would go pitch black dark for a moment and an announcement will be made introducing Kant's <i>Critique of Pure Reason</i> including the author and his background. Some historical context will be provided, such as the nature of European politics and the newly independent United States of America. The original written work of Kant is not complete, as he wrote to his death, but the information in the presentation will come from various editions, translations, and introductions. Dynamic and three-dimensional text will flow through the hologram room in various sections and diagrams to aid the spectator in understanding at least a broad interpretation of his piece and methodology. They would experience this individually and at the final stage of the tour, have a section allotted with complimentary copies of his book for those who want to delve deeper into his ideas.</p>
<p align="LEFT">This work portrays a stunning representative of Enlightenment thought and a valuable source of the beginnings of continental philosophy. In future society, this method of thinking may be more popular than it is today, but if it isn't, then it's even more important to have the dissenting philosophy's answer to the questions the predominant thought can't answer. Kant was a pivotal part of a large movement in thinking than has influenced many people greatly. The presentation will aim at invoking these facts and the influence of his thinking and give applicable examples to personalize the idea to the spectator.</p>
<p align="LEFT">Once Kant's presentation concludes, the cubicle walls will slowly drop into the floor, revealing the group members to one another and the size of the large, dome shaped room. The hologram will begin to change the large room into a desert landscape with a bright blue sky and a glaring sun. The group then is instructed to walk in the direction of the people in the distance and, as they walk, the landscape moves around them as the floor acts as a slow treadmill, simulating a real walk to the site of Muybridge's camera rig. Once the group arrives, they will over hear Muybridge and Stanford talking about the situation that led them there, giving a synopsis to the group as to the details of the situation. Then, Muybridge would reference the oncoming horse, thus gathering the groups attention to the direction the holograms of Leland and Eadweard are looking. The group would witness the horse running in front of them and setting off 24 tripwires and thus Muybridge's 24 cameras, granting him the stream of photographs know as the <i>Horse in Motion </i>or <i>Sallie Gardner at a Gallop.</i> After this show, and much cheering from Muybridge, the hologram shows on the wall the presentation repeating and describing shortly the bet and providing the group diagrams of the mechanisms and Marey's photo-rifle.</p>
<p align="LEFT">This piece is one of the first works of moving photography and portrays how images and image technology has progressed from streaming photographs into interactive holograms in the future and today. People would experience a more readily available and realistic portrayal of events like they never could before. This would create the massive entertainment outlet of film in the 20<sup>th</sup> century and then onward to digital in the 21<sup>st</sup>. Future generations need to understand this approach toward realism and abstraction from realism in what is true from images. With the hologram technology comes the question of how much of life can be made into a simulation, and those in the future should consider the balance of real and simulated experiences.</p>
<p align="LEFT">After Muybridge's work is finished and the presentation is complete, the groups in each of the four structures will be transported to the eco-dome via slow treadmills like those found in an airport, which one can walk on in order to quicken the journey. The eco-dome will contain, as mentioned, a grassy hill and a stage, on which a robotic Jimi Hendrix with holographic outer details plays his Star-Spangled Banner from start to finish. The four groups will witness and experience this together and among a holographic crowd of spectators. In the sky, the spectators will be able to see close-up shots of Hendrix's face and guitar as he uses expert feedback to portray war sounds. A short closing statement on the Vietnam War and the cultural climate in America will be given by a simulated Hendrix and the group will have the option of picking up a free copy of Kant's work if they wish to do so.</p>
<p align="LEFT">Hendrix's piece is important in the study of abstraction in art and eclectic usage of various means to create sound, such as his use of a right-handed guitar. The counterculture in America is also an important voice in the nuclear arms race between Russia and the USA and the how far the USA's policy of containment should go. The global dichotomy created by the two superpowers was one of the final issues that the public was massively involved in in the 20<sup>th</sup> century and this piece should remind spectators of the importance if this aspect of history.</p>
<p align="LEFT">The people would then go back to their smaller buildings, hop into their space-cars, and drive to their space-homes in the space-suburbs. They would put their kids to sleep, curl up in their beds, and go to sleep, possibly dreaming of their experience in the museum. The next morning, they would wake up, make a cup of coffee, get dressed, brush their teeth, eat breakfast, and go to space-work.</p>