The Visionary Sightseeing Binoculars is an interactive public art work that shows historical images of a site. It is in fact a stereoscope that appears to be a sightseeing binocular. Inside are images converted from 2-d to stereo 3-D of the site at which it stands, usually Museum grounds or a town. Similar to the Urban Field Glass Project, this iteration is purely historical. It is suited to less contested public space and more to a reflection on the past. The past images stem from archives (transformed into 3d in Photoshop) The project functions as a purely historical perspective (in 3-D whereby the artist converts 2-d to 3-d), or it can be inserted into publicly contested spaces, where change is occurring or might occur.

This project was done in Germany as part of a “Thingstätte Group Research Project” in which many artists and researches intervened into the space of lost architectural ruins in German stemming form the second world war. Curated and organized by Katharina Bosse.

This project is featured on German TV - WDR in 2020:

https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/west-art/sendungen/thingstaetten-102.html

Book: Publication Date: 2020

Publisher: Kerber Verlag

Link: https://www.kerberverlag.com/en/1819/thingstaetten

It is also permanently installed (with different internal images) in Waverly, IA where it memorializes thw Green Bridge.

Another binocular will soon be permanently installed at the Springfield Art Museum, where it shows the past and future of the Museum building that is currently under renovation.