Made me look: this new exhibit featured in Designboom, by Thai design studio Apostrophy’s (sic), is an inflatable, LED-powered spatial game.
DJ Light (DJ Luz), Lima 2010 from Cinimod Studio on Vimeo.
Roughly translated excerpt from Fubiz:
Designed by English designer Dominic Harris from the studio Cinimod, here is the project “DJ Light”. It is an outdoor installation that allows the public to participate through movement: they conduct a light and sound space made of 85 balloons.
Brilliant.
From the TU Delft architecture library, apparently. Via Recyclart.org. (Caution: only look at Recyclart if you have a few spare hours to gawk.)
Fantastic: these wry dioramas by photographer Lori Nix have been reappearing on the web for a few years now, but I like them more every time they force me to look twice. Back in 2007, Cool Hunting went behind the scenes with Nix to see how (and why) she does her dioramas. Video below.
I am dumbstruck. From Cool Hunting:
Japanese artist Iori Tomita takes a colorful approach to highlighting the complex compositions of marine life creatures with his collection entitled “New World Transparent Specimens.” Tomita was first introduced to the creation of transparent specimens for the scientific purpose of examining minuscule bone structure as an undergraduate student majoring in fisheries. The specimens’ flesh is made translucent by a method that dissolves the creatures’ natural proteins. The artistry of nature and man-made design converge when vibrant dyes are introduced to the delicate skeletal system. Selectively injecting red dye into the hard bones and blue into the softer bones, Tomita underscores the other worldliness of aquatic life.
Most popular tweets of the past 30 days:
- “With new website, devices, (Boston’s) MFA seeks visitors’ touch” http://ow.ly/37Aoz
- Museum Without Walls. http://ow.ly/39GaI
- Gamification: good. http://ow.ly/36xP0 < > Gamification: bad. http://ow.ly/36xMA
- The MoMA iPad app. http://ow.ly/3e2Ra
- Exhibit as participatory infographic: visitors mark their heights in dense line around gallery. http://ow.ly/37edU
- Wait. Do location games like SCVNGR … work? http://ow.ly/37xNx via @mia_out
The rather fab Turner Prize in the UK just went to Susan Philipsz, the “first person in the history of the award to have created nothing you can see or touch” (The Guardian). Philipsz is known for sound art, the “so-called fine art in which audio is the core if not sole constituent element” (BoingBoing).
This YouTube video of an echoing vocal work of her voice singing under a bridge is making the rounds. As both a recovering musician and a designer, this should be right up my alley. But I’m not sure what I think yet. In any case, it seems to have the art world in the UK a bit riled up. What do you think?
Via BoingBoing, seen first via my favorite news reader app, Pulse.
First of all, artist Joseph L. Griffiths has made himself quite a bicycle. Secondly, looking at this has started me thinking. We’re all talking about user-generated content in visitor experiences, and about participatory design. This has both of those in spades, but it’s got one more important thing we might sometimes forget: delight. The next time I am thinking too much, I’m going to imagine myself on this lovely bicycle, pedaling paint, and be better for it. Cheers, Mr. Griffiths. *
* By the way, Mr. G., the world really needs a video of this.
“The Last Newspaper” (cue wincing journalist friends), a new exhibition at the New Museum in New York, features one gallery converted into a newsroom to produce actual issues. Can I volunteer a design office next?
Spectacularly original, utterly low-tech: “Plexus No. 4,” a sculpture made from 50 miles of colored thread by artist Gabriel Dawe is showing at the Dallas Contemporary through January.
Via Co.Design‘s apparently curatorially inexhaustible Suzanne Labarre.
Best. Thing. Ever. When was the last time that crochet made you cry?
Via Science Gallery and the National Museum of Natural History.
Brilliant. I’ve been trying to convince someone to do this for years. And bravo, Mr. de Guzman.
“From close up, the headquarters of the senior curator of art at the Oakland Museum of California mostly looks the same. de Guzman’s laptop and phone occupy their usual spots on his glass-topped desk. The walls are covered with sketches and paintings. But instead of sitting behind a closed door in the museum’s administrative wing, de Guzman is on display to the public as he works at his desk alongside the art displays.”
Via the Bay Citizen.
After years of quietly enjoying my ever-growing collection of books on exhibit design, museum planning and interactive spaces, I have finally come up with a way to share my bookshelf with everyone. I hereby announce the Exhibit Designer’s Bookshelf (beta), courtesy of Shelfari.
Click the link at the very top of this page, or here, and enjoy. More fancy features to come, this is just a start.
Many thanks to Jessica Griscti, bibliographer extraordinaire, for helping to make this happen.
Suggestions? Missing books? Useful? Not useful? Comments open below.
Okay, there are brilliant audience-participation exhibit ideas – and then there are REALLY brilliant audience-participation exhibit ideas.
The sculpture is artist Hans Hemmert’s “German Panther”, 2007.
If you can’t make it to Shanghai for Expo 2010, these three videos by the (accurately named) Shanghai Expo Timelapse Machine give a sense of the different kinds of pavilions on display. Germany: a deep, varied exhibition with a variety of completely different interactive zones in the interior:
Denmark, completely the opposite, with a beautifully designed building and little else to “do” (not that anything more is needed):
And finally, the hauntingly beautiful, award-winning UK pavilion, the “Seed Cathedral”:
My Shelfari bookshelf: the latest on exhibit design, museum planning, and interactive space.
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