05.05.08

Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body exhibit

Environmental Graphics, Education

This exhibition at the National Library of Medicine (and its accompanying Web site) explores the significant cases, technologies and people that impacted advances in forensic medicine.

In collaboration with exhibition designers Howard Revis, Portland-based Second Story Interactive designed and developed the video installations and interactive autopsy slab. Visitors are engaged with interactivity through media elements that are well integrated into the exhibition, creating a multisensory experience: the shadows of medical examiners behind the body blend with those of passing visitors; video screens are embedded in cases and walls; projectors are hidden from view; and an interactive autopsy slab with a draped body engages visitors with autopsy procedures and supporting cases on a life-size figure.

Brad Johnson, Second Story Interactive, creative director; Thomas Wester/David Brewer/Matt Arnold, Second Story Interactive, programmers; JD Hooge, Second Story Interactive, designer; Lisa Berndt, Second Story Interactive, writer; Julie Beeler, Second Story Interactive, producer; Alphonse Swinehart, Second Story Interactive, motion graphics artist/AV designer ; Martin Linde, Second Story Interactive, animator; Alex Aronson, Second Story Interactive, production assistant/image researcher; Darby Sedcole, production artist; Jennifer Young, QA; Elizabeth Fee, Ph.D., National Library of Medicine, project director; Patricia Tuohy, National Library of Medicine, exhibition program head; Michael Sappol, Ph.D., National Library of Medicine, exhibition curator-historian; Jiwon Kim, National Library of Medicine, exhibition educator; Erika Mills, National Library of Medicine, community outreach coordinator; Elizabeth Mullen, National Library of Medicine, exhibition coordinator ; Jill L. Newmark, National

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