Human Rights

Location
Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, NSW

Partners
Sydney Jewish Museum, X Squared Design and Interactive Controls

Services
Concept development, media design, 2D animation, video production, software production, content management system (CMS) development, user acceptance testing, installation and commissioning

Lightwell created various pieces of multimedia for The Holocaust and Human Rights, a new permanent exhibition at the Sydney Jewish Museum in Darlinghurst.

Four thematic animations are projected onto an array of circular tables in the centre of the space, each focusing on a different human rights issue. The animations blend significant events, quotes, facts, data visualisations and interviews to form a narrative which prompts visitors to reflect on and discuss these issues. 

Two long, thin portrait monitors are embedded into the timeline on the back wall. One monitor shows a chronology of advances in human rights law, and the other depicts a timeline of human rights violations (genocides).

At the entrance to the Sanctum of Remembrance, a series of niches within the wall display the portraits of men, women and children who died in the Holocaust. Over the course of a day, the display continually refreshes the portraits, drawing from a database of over a thousand images. Visitors can search for specific families and individual people using a nearby touchscreen. Called Zachor (Remember), this piece acts as a constantly-changing digital memorial which can be added to and administered by Museum staff.

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