Museum Barberini vs PickrickAR

The Barberini app is your digital guide for your visit to the museum. Discover the current exhibition and the Impressionist collection, and learn more about the artworks, their artists, and the stories behind the paintings. Features • Audio tours for adults and children in German and English • Texts in simple language and videos in German Sign Language (DGS) • Audio tours of the collection in English, French, Italian, Polish, and Ukrainian • Music Walks—a personalized soundtrack to Impressionism • City walks: “Italy,” “France,” and “Holland in Potsdam,” as well as “Jewish Life in Potsdam” • Floor plan for navigating the museum • 360° panoramas of the exhibition • Up-to-date event information • Practical service information Terms of Use An internet connection is required to use the app. Free, password-free Wi-Fi is available at the Barberini Museum. To access all content and features, we recommend enabling location services and Bluetooth.

We are exploring Augmented Reality as a way of making history visible in a location-based installation that recreates events that happened over 8 months in the 1960s, on a site that is now part of the Georgia Tech campus. On July 3 1964, the day after the Civil Rights Act was passed, George Willis, Jr, Albert L. Dunn, and Woodrow T. Lewis, all ministers and students at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, attempted to gain entry to the Pickrick restaurant a notorious bastion of resistance to integration. The events of that day became the basis of the first lawsuit brought under that Act, filed by the legendary Constance Baker Motley of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Over the next few months the owner of the restaurant, future Georgia governor Lester Maddox, tried renaming the restaurant and changing the signage to evade the legal process, but a rotating group of non-violent protesters risked violence at the hands of armed mobs in order to repeatedly demonstrate that the restaurant was acting in violation of the Civil Rights Act. They eventually forced Maddox to close and so that on February 23 1965 Jack Googer, who worked on Peachtree Street, was able to peacefully sit down to lunch in the now renamed Gateway Cafeteria. Soon after, the restaurant was bought by Georgia Tech, and after about 50 years of use as an administration building and a campus police station, it has now been torn down to make way for the Eco-Commons. Our project is an exercise in using Augmented Reality storytelling to make the invisible visible in two ways. First we are working to project the image of the building and animated recreations of the protests onto the very changed current landscape. Second, we are attempting to beyond the usual protagonist of the story – the segregationist fried chicken seller — to bring into the non-violent protesters into the foreground.