The Football Experience (2007)
From season 2007/2008 onwards, Belgian football club KRC Genk’s stadium will not only have a new name, Cristal Arena. It will also have a new exhibition space where football fans will learn about football as a social phenomenon that brings people together. The medial highlight of the “Goal Mine” exhibition is the interactive installation “The Football Experience” by ART+COM.
The life-sized, heavily stylized figure of a football player is placed on a table surface. When visitors touch different parts of the body, they learn what injuries football players suffer. If visitors touch a hand, e.g., a realistic X-ray image of its bones shines up on it. At the same time, detailed information in textual and graphic form pops up: How often do football players receive this kind of injury, what are usual recovery periods? Additionally, a film shows situations in matches where a player suffers the corresponding injury.
Four positions around the figure independently allow accessing the information so that several football fans can playfully enlarge their knowledge at the same time. Choosing Dutch, French, English, or German as the installation’s language is possible at all times.
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Client
MADOC
Services
- Concept
- Interaction design
- Media design
- General technical planning and realisation
- Application programming
- Installation
- Project management
Technology
- 1 PC
- 2 XGA beamers
Special features
- Projection on three dimensional football player figure
- Special construction of table and figure was realized by Bruns Interactive B.V.