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It’s always interesting to get a peek into how the sausage gets made. Today we’re sharing a snapshot of the screen design process for a digital interactive we produced for the Levine Museum of the New South in North Carolina. The program looks at the unequal treatment of some of Charlotte’s neighborhoods due to race, and is part of the exhibit, “Charlotte: Moving Forward, Looking Back.” Music: Intro Musician: Jeff Kaale #ProcessShare #Interactive #ScreenDesign #Creativity #DesignProcess #MonadnockDesigns

What would media experiences be without cameras and the photographers behind them? We depend on still images every day in our work.  They document, inform, reveal, inspire and sometimes move us beyond measure. Our thanks to all of the photographers past and present who have enabled us to do what we do. Happy National Camera Day! 📷 🎉 #nationalcameraday

On June 21, 1964, young civil rights activists James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were murdered by Ku Klux Klan members in Neshoba County, Mississippi at the start of Freedom Summer. The initial disappearance of the two white Northerners and one Black Mississippian drew national attention and triggered a search involving the FBI, Mississippi National Guard, and naval personnel. It led to the discovery of the remains of eight other men, all Black. Forty-four days after the murder, a tip finally led investigators to an earthen dam on a local farm, where they found the buried bodies of the three missing activists. As the murder’s details emerged, Mississippi refused to prosecute. Seven men were found guilty of civil rights violations at a federal trial in 1967; none served more than six years. Mississippi eventually reopened the case, and in 2005 Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison, dying there in 2018. Monadnock produced the Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner immersive theater program for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, using intentionally skewed and distorted projection. The program won a Gold MUSE Award from the American Alliance of Museums.   #Freedomsummer #civilrightsmovement #Blackhistory #MuseumExperiences #MonadnockDesigns

Monadnock wishes everyone an inspiring and uplifting Juneteenth. We also pay our respects to one of our nation’s great journalists, educators, and civil rights leaders, Ida B. Wells, whose words continue to resonate today. #Juneteenth

Associate Producer Judy Stern marks her 23year anniversary at Monadnock this week! She came in as a stellar researcher and content developer in 2001. Over time, she became more involved in developing and creating media experiences in her role as Associate Producer. Judy’s intelligence, incredible attention to detail, creativity, and passion for the work have been a crucial part of what has made us Monadnock. Most of all, Judy is a joy for all of us to work with! Join us in congratulating Judy!🎉

It’s Pride Month! 🌈 Today’s Activists, our digital interactive produced for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC), features contemporary activists fighting for LGBTQ+ rights and other issues of social justice. It highlights the ways people across the country have fought for causes they care about, with the goal of inspiring CRMC visitors to get involved with issues important to them today. #pridemonth #lovewins #equality

For #throwbackthursday, we’re featuring Great Gulf Challenge, a multi-player interactive game we produced for GulfQuest in Mobile, Alabama. Set in the future, it poses a challenge to visitors: how do you bring the Gulf of Mexico’s environmental, economic, and energy needs into balance? Projection mapping and animation are used to present issues such as overfishing, development, wetlands degradation, and energy use. Visitors grapple with these issues and others as they collaborate to save the Gulf from collapse.

Senior Producer Tracy Litwin marks her 25th anniversary at Monadnock this week! 🌟Tracy arrived here in 1999 with over ten years’ freelance production experience on documentaries, feature films and other work. Over the past 25 years, Tracy has guided a multitude of Monadnock projects from conceptual design through installation and produced countless media experiences of all kinds. Her intelligence, insight, artistic vision, and crack production skills have been a big part of what has made us Monadnock. Congratulations and a heartfelt thank you, Tracy!! 🎉

For #throwbackthursday, we’re highlighting a fun past project aimed at kids. The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum opened in June 2017, right down the highway from us in his hometown of Springfield, MA. The museum asked us to create the multi-level, interactive rhyming game, Green Eggs and Ham WordPlay, to engage young visitors of different ages and help promote the joy of reading. Kids join animated Seussian characters like Fox, Sam-I-am, and Pop to pair images with sounds and words drawn from the vocabulary of the beloved Seuss book. The game helps children develop skills in rhyming, an essential tool for reading success. #MuseumExperiences #InteractiveMedia #TechInArt #MonadnockDesigns

Tvshka, the Choctaw word for warrior, implies honor, bravery, duty, and service. For the Choctaw Cultural Center, Monadnock produced a program that explores the transcendent meaning of warrior spirit to Choctaw people. In a solemn space reminiscent of a war memorial, video projections play on stone textured walls around cast figures of Choctaw warriors, past and present. #memorialday