Theme of the month September/October 07
Curating new media design: interaction and architectures
Over the two months of September and October 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.
Our focus is on media architectures: installing interactive design and
new media in gallery spaces, as well as 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/October 2007:
Urban Screens in Manchester http://www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk
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/
Current Respondents:
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
Additional respondents for October include:
Karlheinz Klopf / Sigrid Kurz, artists
Ingrid Smit, manager of studies Institute of Interactive Media,
Professional University of Amsterdam
Szuper Gallery, artists
Susanne Clausen, Pawlo Kerestey
David Dernie, author of a book on exhibition design, an architect,
exhibition designer, and head of the Manchester School of Architecture
in England.
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