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Collaborating with the Past: Native American Portraiture by Shane Balkowitsch

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Whilst in Oxford University’s quite mind-boggling and amazing Pitt Rivers museum/collection recently I stumbled across something that I could easily digest; a series of beautiful monochrome portraits by the American […]

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state […]

Kings of the Underground featured in The Guardian

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The Kings of the Underground project was recently featured in the Guardian newspaper online. Click on the picture above to access the article. ends

Kings of the Underground – Opening

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07th November, King’s of the Undergound exhibition had it’s official opening at the National Waterfront Museum – Amgueddfa Cymru. The event was attended by many involved in the project; ex-miners […]

Kings of the Underground – Press Release

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Kings of The Underground – Exhibition by Vision Fountain / National Waterfront Museum until 19th March 2023 (part of Amgueddfa Cymru / Museum of Wales) Download Vision Fountain Press Release […]

Kings of the Underground – Project Details

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Kings of The Underground by Vision Fountain An exhibition of three-dimensional (3D) portraits of Welsh Miners called “Kings of the Underground” opens at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Wales 07th […]

Kings of The Underground – Exhibition Official Opening 07th November

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We are getting very excited………….. An exhibition of three-dimensional (3D) portraits and voice recordings of Welsh Miners called “Kings of the Underground” opens at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Wales […]

The Festival of Archeology – Virtual Fossil Room

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Vision Fountain were invited to introduce and user test a new virtual reality experince; “The Fossil Room” (beta) we are creating in collaboration with Rhondda Heritage Park . The experience […]

Augmented Reality – Paris French National Museum of Natural History

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Vision Fountain recently visited the French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN). We experienced the Grand Gallery of Evolution, which houses some 7,000 animal specimens and their new AR experince […]

Working with Cardiff Metropolitan University

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Vision Fountain have had the good fortune to work with Cardiff Metropolitan University on our current project “Last Generation of Coalminers” (currently exhibiting at Rhondda Heritage Park, next Museum of […]