Batman x Spyscape Immersive Museum Experience
We were commissioned by SPYSCAPE to design and provide creative direction for the physical exhibition and its immersive media for BATMAN x SPYSCAPE, an interactive experience inspired by DC’s Batman.
The visitors enters the story world and embarks on a mission-focused adventure in an immersive media-driven physical experience that seamlessly interact with a cutting edge real-time app designed by the SPYSCAPE team.
To reimagine the HQ of a high-tech underworld organization, Leviathan, we drew inspiration from contemporary art and theater, and their approach to light, sound, media, and sculptural elements. These mediums were choreographed to heighten the visitors’ emotions as they journey through the public and
the dystopic private face of Leviathan and its inner workings.
BATMAN x SPYSCAPE is a new model that combines gamification with artefacts to create a new type of museum experience that gives agency to the public.
See: WWD Women’s Wear Daily article
Disciplines:
Experiential Space
Curation
Motion
Strategy
Exhibition Design
Installations
Film/Motion
Interactive
CLIENT: SPYSCAPESITE: NEW YORKPROJECT SCOPE:
CONCEPT & DESIGN /
CREATIVE DIRECTION /
CO-CURATION /
EXHIBITION DESIGN /
MEDIA DIRECTION /
LIGHTING DIRECTION /
PRODUCTION SUPERVISION /
PROJECT MANAGEMENT /
( TEAM_CONDENSED VERSION ): CONCEPT, EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTION & EXPERIENCE DESIGN: JOHN HUNT, ROSS PHILIPS
STORY: GAIL SIMONE, WILL DREW
PHYSICAL EXHIBITION & IMMERSIVE MEDIA – CONCEPT, DESIGN, CREATIVE DIRECTION:
MONA KIM PROJECTSART DIRECTION & GRAPHIC DESIGN: STUDIO KUNZE
VIDEO PRODUCTION & MOTION GRAPHICS: TOMATO: SIMON TAYLOR (DIRECTOR), ROB BAKER-ASHTON, BRUNO COSTARELLI, IBRAHIM MUASHER, JAI WILSON
SOUND DESIGN: FERDINAND GRÄTZ
ELECTROACOUSTICS: LSTN
LIGHTING DESIGN: SENSE LIGHTING
SCENIC BUILD, FABRICATION, SITE MANAGEMENT: SUPERMATIC
CONTENT RESEARCH ANDRES CLERICI
APP VISUALISATION, UX & UI DESIGN: NAT ALT, SAM BALLARD, LIAM DEVEREUX
COMPANION BOOK: GAIL SIMONE, J. CALAFIORE, DENNIS LEHMANN, ERICA SCHULTZ
PROJECT MANAGEMENT: ANDREW MCKINNA, ONEDOTZERO PRODUCTIONS, RODDY SCAIFE
+ SPYSCAPE TEAM
ENTRANCE
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE SEAMLESSLY INTERACTS WITH A CUTTING EDGE REAL-TIME APP DESIGNED BY THE SPYSCAPE TEAM.
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
LEVIATHAN WELCOME CENTER PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
LEVIATHAN WELCOME CENTER PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
EMBEDDED "MURMURS" INSIDE THE SCULPTURE.
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
LEVIATHAN WELCOME CENTER (EVACUATION MODE) PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
PORTAL THAT "UNLOCKS" ENTRY TO THE HEART OF LEVIATHAN'S COMMAND CENTER
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
PORTAL THAT "UNLOCKS" ENTRY TO THE HEART OF LEVIATHAN'S COMMAND CENTER
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
PORTAL THAT "UNLOCKS" ENTRY TO THE HEART OF LEVIATHAN'S COMMAND CENTER
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
PORTAL THAT "UNLOCKS" ENTRY TO THE HEART OF LEVIATHAN'S COMMAND CENTER
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
DYSTOPIC COMMAND CENTER OF LEVIATHAN.
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
DYSTOPIC COMMAND CENTER OF LEVIATHAN AND ITS "WORKSTATIONS."
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
DYSTOPIC COMMAND CENTER OF LEVIATHAN AND ITS "WORKSTATIONS."
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
SURVEILLANCE CONSOLES.
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
DYSTOPIC COMMAND CENTER OF LEVIATHAN AND ITS "WORKSTATIONS."
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
LEVIATHAN'S SCIENCE LAB WHERE KRYPTONITE IS BEING FORMULATED.
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
LEVIATHAN'S SCIENCE LAB WHERE KRYPTONITE IS BEING FORMULATED.
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
LEVIATHAN'S SCIENCE LAB WHERE KRYPTONITE IS BEING FORMULATED.
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
AI TECHNOLOGY.
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
REVERSE ENGINEERING OF HERO WEAPONS.
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
SOUND TUNNEL - "THE STRUGGLE" AUDITORY EXPERIENCE
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON
A RETURN FROM LEVIATHAN TO SPYSCAPE.
PHOTO: ROB BAKER ASHTON