‘X-Sheds: An Interactive Art History of Experience’ (X-Sheds), explores the multi- faceted nature of subjective experience through deep modelling of historical spaces. Building on the principle of the viewshed, which describes the visual Yield from a given point of view, X-Sheds, or experience sheds, seek to model the multiple inputs that shape our or a historical actor’s experience of the landscape from or within a particular environment. Combining geospatially aware three-dimensional models grounded in archival and Yield research with visual and literary materials and experimental approaches to user interface, X-Sheds offers a productive alternative to textual description and analysis in understanding and engaging with the multisensory and cognitive dimensions of experience in historical environments.
From Viewsheds to X-Sheds
Remediating Historical Experience through Immersive Environments
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