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SCENOGRAPHY.WORLD

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SCENOGRAPHY:
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The open access repository, maintained by individual creators, forms the foundation for a range of activities facilitated through Dynamisch Archief (DNA).
The works are to be curated and presented at Scenography.World, the platform's public interface and virtual Museum.

Scenography, in this context, extends beyond traditional stage design and encompasses various forms of digital representations and hybrid experiences. Through VR exhibitions, experiments, reconstructions and designs, DNA seeks to foster high-quality work and drive the professionalization of the contemporary creative field.
The platform's open and flexible database structure, maintained by individual creators, enables digital presentations in an unlimited variety of formats. Essentially, the DNA collection catalogue serves as the groundwork for activities initiated and executed by curators, exhibition designers and architects.

‘Scenography.World’ functions as the public interface of the platform and turns the activities and ideas into a surprising and inviting public space.

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Works in progress

Scenography.World with a VR indoor space that accommodates exhibitions, concerts, performances, ballet and scenic work that is archived by designers and curators in the DynamicArchief.nl (DNA).

^{Museumplein, Amsterdam}

reconstruction stedelijk museum amsterdam 1922

The exhibition with more than ninety-five designers and architects from twelve countries, representatives of scenography and/or architecture in the first decades of the twentieth century with names such as Adolphe Appia, Léon Bakst, Hendrick Berlage, Lovat Fraser, Firmin Gémier, Nathalie Gontcharova and Edward Gordon Craig.

DEVELOPING THE PUBLIC EXHIBITION STEP BY STEP
STEP #1:
VISIT THE 2D TOUR OF THE 1922 RECONSTRUCTION

^{Exhibition design: Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld}

The first 3D version is built based on the floor plan and photos of the 1922 International Theater Exhibition:
showing the process #2

^{Courtesy: Tijm Lanjouw, 4D research Lab UVA}

Apocalypse

VR RECONSTRUCTION AND NEW DESIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE
In 2023 the Stedelijk presented five decades of artistry by multi-talented Felix de Rooy (Curaçao, 1952) with film, theater and visual arts in countless forms from paintings to assemblages and from (digital) collages to wall hangings. Far ahead of his time, De Rooy investigated topics that are still relevant today, including the impact of the colonial past, everyday racism and the meaning of Afro-Caribbean and queer identities in art.

New VR design: a composite version of the Apocalypse in the Stedelijk Museum 2023 and the publication EGO DOCUMENTA, both designed by René Wissink (Atelier Argos).

Garden Spirits

Digital collage by Felix de Rooy and Kirk Claes, digital new media video, 7 min., 2012

Scenography today

Scenography.World interprets the current meaning of the word scenography more broadly than the original limited classification to the theatre environment:
Since the 80s, the meanings of scenography have broadened as museum presentations of objects, installations, performances, happenings, etc. have become scenes in themselves. Scenography.World as a public space shows all of the different facets of scenography in theatre, art, design, music, politics, daily life, AI and more…