Created in the 1920s the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History are xeroxs of the natural environments to recreate places curators feared were in danger of disappearing. Composed of three parts: a semi-hemsipherical background painting, a vegetated foreground tableaux and a menagerie of taxidermied specimen, sites were recreations of North American sites in meticulous detail. Artists and scientists were sent into the field to capture artifacts and specimen to release them to urban audiences in New York City.

Live feed frame updates the original intent of the diorama, providing a digital feed of the sites that the dioramas were meant to represent. The frame broadcasts contemporary images and data of diorama ites back to the museum in New York.

The frame is two-faced, one that is a strict representation of the hand-hewned wood frame that outlines the diorama in New York. It is referential and provides a physical reference point on-site. The opposite side is scientific, a plug-and-play data hub that provides the mainframe for an in-situ monitoring station.