Theme of the month September/October 07
Curating new media design: interaction and architectures
Over the next two months CRUMB explores ideas around curating new
media design and interactive design in exhibition environments. From
constructed or built sites to facilitating designed experiences the
discussion hopes to look at alternative and emerging forms of
installation design and interactive practices. – a response to the
potentials and conflicts inherent in media spaces and mediated
landscapes.
In September the focus is on media architectures: installing
interactive design and new media in gallery spaces; in October the
theme develops further around the festival DOTT 07 in Newcastle* and
other relevant events -- installing design and new media in public
spaces.
Questions:
Given the overlapping of works in large and sometimes crowded
exhibitions how are spaces “divided” and/or to a certain degree
hybrid? Where does a particular work ‘begin’ or ‘collaborate’ or
interfere with another? What are some interesting design strategies?
What are the specific challenges of curating “interaction design”
projects?
If design/furniture is the work itself, in what way does it shape the
experience of the audience? Is exhibition design essential as an
entry point for an audience – and how? How is interaction by the
viewer INVITED by design? Is design a solution, a transmitter, a
process, or an object?
References for September and October 2007:
Festival DOTT 07 Designs of the time http://www.dott07.com/; Media
Architecture Conference 2007 http://www.mediaarchitecture.org/;
symposium situated technologies (http://
www.situatedtechnologies.net); exhibition Our Cyborg Future at
Discovery Museum, Newcastle (10 Aug – 27 Oct 2007) http://
www.dott07.com/go/cyborg/exhibition; exhibition Workspheres at MoMA
(8 Feb – 22 Apr 2001) http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2001/
workspheres/index.html; exhibition Les Immatériaux at Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris (28 Mar – 15 Jul 1985);
Course: Curating Contemporary Design MA (Kingston University London)
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/pgcurating/
Confirmed respondents at time of writing include (look out for more
to join as we near October!)
Melissa Mongiat, Kelsey Snook and Arlete Castelo. designers from Milk
and Tales. Kelsey and Melissa have recently written a methodology for
creating interactive design projects, and Arlete has done a research
project on the use of interactive technology in exhibitions.
Bruce Wands, Director of the New York Digital Salon, Chair of the MFA
Computer Art Department School of Visual Arts, New York, NY and the
author of "Art of the Digital Age."
Celine Condorelli, a London-based architect, whose practice is
concerned with architecture as support and interface, developing
critical models towards exhibition making and public space. She is
currently developping "support structure", is Senior Lecturer at
London Metropolitan University and architect-curator for Eastside
Projects, Birmingham. Recent work focuses on art and architecture
collaborations and exhibitions. Celine Condorelli is PhD candidate at
Goldsmith College, London, and one half of Support Band.
Kitty Scott, curator, Serpentine Gallery, London
Mirjam Struppek, urbanist, researcher and consultant
Catherine McDermott, head of the Kingston University MA in Curating
Design and Donna Loveday Head of Exhibitions at the Design Museum
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