DIMONscapes / Case study
Interactive art / Custom publishing
An invitation to explore the stories inside a painting
Artist Roz Dimon created DIMONscapes to let viewers dive deeper into her digital paintings, exploring layers and stories at their own pace. We collaborated with Roz on software prototypes, then built a custom CMS so she could create new DIMONscapes.
- Collaborator
- Roz Dimon
- Our role
- Software prototyping and custom CMS development
- Category
- Creative technology
- Stage
- Product
More to discover inside the image
A DIMONscape pairs a physical still image with an interactive media experience. Roz's concept gives viewers room to explore the layers and stories within a painting at their own pace. Our software work helped bring that experience into a working viewer. Havens House shows how the story unfolds: a moonlit scene is one step within the same viewer that presents the finished layered composition. These screenshots show two moments in that experience.
A way to create the next DIMONscape
We started with MVPs, working with Roz to explore how viewers could dive deeper into her digital art. After a successful prototype, we built a custom CMS that let her create new DIMONscapes. The archived 2022 editor shows the publishing structure: ordered story steps bring together an image, audio and narrative text. For Havens House, that means the moon photograph, an audio file and the opening line belong to the same editable step.
Deeper viewing, repeatable publishing
- Viewers can explore a painting's layers and stories at their own pace.
- Roz gained a custom CMS for creating new DIMONscapes beyond the initial prototypes.
Credits
- Roz Dimon: DIMONscapes concept, artwork and creative direction.
- Pete Grossman: sound engineering; Havens House narration.
- Johnmark Beaty: historical software engineering contribution, publicly credited on Havens House as “javascript editing.”
- Havens House source material: from the collection of the Shelter Island Historical Society, unless otherwise noted, and other credited sources. Step 1 includes Moon over Mashomack, a photograph by James Dawson.