Transient Exposure

An artistic mixed-reality installation combining physical artifacts, digital augmentation, and spatial sound to explore archival dance material.

Technologies

Unity
C#
MRTK

Platform	HoloLens 2
Year	2021
Location	Berlin, Germany / Colombo, Sri Lanka
Event	Extended Reality – Code and Materiality in Art and Culture
Artists	reVerb (artists' collective) — Concept and artistic direction Mareike Trillhaas — Sound design and live music Chitrasena Dance Company — Archive material and performance heritage
Developers	XR_Unites team — Project management and development

Transient Exposure was an artistic mixed-reality installation that combined physical artifacts, partially interactive digital augmentations, and three-dimensional sound to present archival material from the Chitrasena Dance Company in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The project explored how mixed reality can offer new modes of access to cultural archives and embodied histories.

By layering digital content onto physical exhibition elements, the installation created an immersive environment in which visitors could experience the history and cultural significance of the dance company in a spatial and performative way. The combination of visual augmentation and spatial audio played a central role in conveying the embodied nature of dance beyond traditional documentation formats.

The installation was presented as part of the exhibition Extended Reality – Code and Materiality in Art and Culture by the INKA research group at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin.