Horizon – Traces of Nazi terror in Brandenburg

CLIENT

SPUR.lab

RESEARCH FIELD

Social science

TYPE

AR, Exhibit, Web

YEAR

2024

DESCRIPTION

The AR app "Horizon" gives young people in particular the opportunity to come to terms with the fatal consequences of a national-populist and pseudo-identitarian ideology. It aims to make the traces of Nazi crimes visible again, using the latest web-based augmented reality technology. Biographies, which could also be our own, convey a sense of what it means when history repeats itself.

CREDITS

Idea and artistic concept:

Arnold Dreyblatt with Kurt Winkler and SPUR.lab

The production was funded by the SPUR.lab (Site Specific Augmented Storytelling.lab). It is a project partnership between the Ravensbrück Memorial, the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, the House of Brandenburg-Prussian History and the Babelsberg Film University under the project sponsorship of the Brandenburg Society for Culture and History.

Explore it yourself on your phone!

Horizon

Idea and concept

Based on the idea and concept of the internationally renowned media artist Arnold Dreyblatt and in collaboration with the art historian Dr Kurt Winkler, the Science Communication Lab has designed and developed the mobile AR app "HORIZON", which makes the places and paths of the victims of the Nazi regime visible.

At these locations, the biographies and forced migration of the victims have been mapped and traced. The AR app makes the network of terror visible and thus the brutal dimension of persecution, deportation and murder. The app shows the harrowing consequences hidden behind euphemisms such as "remigration" and "national identity". The AR function makes the traces of this disastrous history visible again in the present, and this historical presence is more urgent than ever in times when nationalist and anti-Semitic movements are gaining strength in Europe. Never again is now!

"HORIZON" is not a finished project. Further locations and biographies can be added to the visualisation. We invite all interested parties to contribute to Brandenburg's virtual landscape of remembrance.

Desktop/Exhibition-Version

In addition to the web-based AR mobile app, a version for museum exhibitions was created in which the network of terror is visualised from the perspective of Potsdam.

Give it a try: https://horizonmuseum.hbpg.de/