The telecommunications and data exhibition
The telecommunications and data exhibition
Get to know information and communication technology (ICT) through the history of telecommunications and computers in an innovative and unique way: Pick up an identifier pin, which you will find in the entrance, and log in to the exhibition! Artificial intelligence (AI) helps you to have a museum experience in spectacular surroundings, where the past meets the present - with engaging pointers towards the future. The whole family can "nostalgia travel" in time and share experiences related to more than 250 objects that represent older and newer technology, each with its own fabulous history.
I/O shatters the mould of what you expect when you hear the word exhibition. With the innovative use of AI sets, you become part of the exhibition in ways you have never experienced before. You even get to express yourself through an avatar! Since the exhibit becomes "new" each time you enter your selections, the exhibit will present you with the objects and history (and stories) in different ways—every time.
Log in to the exhibition's AI using an identifier and answer various questions. I/O responds by offering different trails through the exhibition that are adapted to your choices. When you experience the exhibition, you will leave anonymous data which in turn forms the basis for the experience you get in Reaktor.
We promise you spectacular surroundings, stories and objects selected and adapted just for you! And do you want more? Yes, then you can just enter other choices and go through the exhibition once more.
The entire fourth floor of 1,200 square meters has been used for the museum's innovative and interactive major investment , to the delight of children and young people, as well as parents and grandparents!
For all ages
Permanent exhibition
Where: The entire museum's 4th floor
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A whole series of words, which form opposite pairs, problematise the effects of information and communication technology throughout the ages.
- Before I/O, we had no comprehensive ICT exhibition in Norway. We are in the midst of digitization and need arenas to discuss and understand. Through the exhibition, we tell the ICT stories on which our future is based, also with regard to sustainability and the green shift.
Museum director Frode Meinich
From the telephone's infancy to the digital society
The exhibition shows and discusses the development from telegraphy and the introduction of the telephone at the end of the 19th century to the present day. More and more are digitally connected - and artificial intelligence is part of everyday life. You get to see various things from this entire period through various trails that I/O recommends for you. A trail can be something from the 1970s. Back then, laptops hadn't seen the light of day. The World Wide Web did not exist. Cell phones were in their infancy. NRK had a TV and radio monopoly and the IT explosion did not come until the 1980s and 90s. Times were different, and are fun to reminisce upon.
Unique collection of items
The exhibition is developed around the museum's unique collection of telegraphic and computer technology objects, which represent important characteristics of Norwegian telecommunications and computer history. The exhibition is also in touch with the present and sets up discussions about the future.
A digital time travel
Create dialogue across generations in a digital time travel . In a giant phone you will find theme cards that deal with our close data and telecommunications history. With this, we want to strengthen children and young people's knowledge in the face of new technology, and highlight social reactions that can be unique to digital meetings. Through dialogue, we increase our common technology understanding!
The phone was designed by Christian G. Falch and developed in collaboration with Save the Children, with support from the Dam Foundation.
One of the project managers for the exhibition, Henrik Treimo, has previously led the work on innovative exhibitions, such as Mind gap and Things. Technology and Democracy. In Things, the museum gave the digital a greater place than has previously been the tradition at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology .
- We have used digital technologies actively to create an exhibition that can play with the audience and change over time. The exhibition is programmable, using machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence.
Anything other than a dynamic exhibition, which develops in step with the rapid changes in the ICT field, will quickly become outdated, says Treimo.
Art in the exhibition
How does technology affect our lives and the society we live in?
Art can trigger emotions and reactions that inspire, engage and provide new insights, which in turn can be used in discussions about society-changing technologies. In the exhibition, we will meet works of art that experiment with technology in various ways.
Sisyphus – the meeting between man and machine
An art installation where a steel ball moves in sand and creates fascinating patterns. The bullet's path is determined by the data visitors leave in the exhibition. The installation can be interpreted as a visual representation of the interaction between human and machine.
Private Lives – new gatherings, new dividing lines
What are the conditions for belonging in digital everyday life? Can digital media create greater closeness? That is what the exhibition Private life's boundaries: New gatherings - new dividing lines asks. Developed in collaboration with The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and the Academy of Performing Arts at Østfold University College.
Previous exhibitions
Perspectives on ICT
ICT - information and communication technology - is an extensive field. As a collective term, ICT is quite new, and perhaps not apt. We are happy to talk about computer history, telecommunications history, broadcasting history. Or we can talk about information, control, digitalisation, programming, workplaces, the internet and social media – new realities that are constantly and rapidly changing and developing.
Concept collaboration with:
In collaboration with Snøhetta, both space and concept were designed to realize a programmable computer and telecommunications exhibition. This is the first exhibition of this kind in Norway, and the ambitions are great.
- The collaboration with Snøhetta has been about finding a packaging for objects and stories that can together carry the exhibition and the ambitions for a programmable and dynamic exhibition. Robots, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence are among the themes, and we also use such technologies actively in the exhibition - perhaps in some unexpected ways, says one of the two project managers, Dag Andreassen.
Andreassen has previously led the work on the exhibitions Climate X, Moon landing 50 years and Oil and gas.
- We have set ourselves the goal of developing an innovative exhibition concept with great transfer value to the entire museum landscape, nationally and internationally! Project manager Dag Andreassen
