Virtual sketchbooks, what and why

This video shows the first exhibited version (Video © Mads Folmer 2013).

See also the website of our Italian Drawings project, in which we initially developed Viskbook and experiment with other things as well.

Exhibitions using Viskbook technology

• Nivaagaard Art Museum as part of the Martinus Røbye exhibition, September 7, 2014 - January 18, 2015. See photos
• Øregaard Art Museum as part of the Martinus Røbye exhibition, September 7, 2014 - January 18, 2015 (two coordinated exhibitions, each with its own Viskbook). See photo
• Ribe Art Museum taking over the Rørby exhibitions, January 31, 2015 - May 25, 2015.
• Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Copenaghen, November 22 - December 20, 2013
• Roskilde City Public Library, May 8 - mid June 2013
• National Libraries Cooperation Fair, Bella Center, Copenhagen, November 4-7, 2015
• The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde: Special exhibition Dive In – join the maritime archaeologist at work, from April 28, 2017.

Interested in a Viskbook at your museum, your industrial fair, your school, ... ?

We can help to analyze your needs and design a particular setup for your environment together with our highly qualified developers. The easiest way to proceed is that you buy the necessary equipment (two projectors, a standard laptop and a few other things) according to our advice (50,000 DKK / 7,000 EUR is far more than enough). We prefer that you provide a high quality scanning of the book (to eliminate the risk of damaging the original), and we will integrate the scanning into our software. Some furniture to hide the projectors may be necessary; will cost you from about 1,000 DKK / 150 EUR to infinity depending on your ambitions and architectural requirements. We expect that you hire the carpenter, and we will help with the plans.

We are not a private company but university people with limited time. We need to have our developer's salaries and our own expenses covered, but (so far ;-) we are not interested in making big money out of this.

We maintain all rights to our software and as our rule of thumb, we grant our partners the right to use it for one exhibition at a time (for as long as it runs).

Who are we?

Laursen and Christiansen are researchers at Roskilde University, Denmark, with a lot of interests. A strong common interest for us is to develop and use new, innovative ways of presenting information, and art is one very demanding and fascinating form of information.

Steffen Thorlund has a recent master's degree from Roskilde in Computer Science and informatics. He is the chief programmer in the project as well as general problem solver.

We want to apply our inventions in practice: to see our stuff actually being used and creating interest, to give our contribution to making new sides of great art more accessible, and (academics as we are) having a way to test our ideas.

Without our developers, the running Viskbook installations would not have been possible: In addition to Steffen Thorlund we mention also Atez Gürsimek who adapted and adjusted image files so they are shown in the best way.

Our research in interactive installations is associated with the Experience Lab at Roskilde University and recieves support from the Designing Human Technologies program.