Tiny Museums
16 exhibits in on 6 foot box brings museums to the masses
Interactive art adventure
Adventures through some interactive art pieces.
Ryoji Ikeda exhibit at 180 Strand (another video here and review here)
Notional waves Cuppetelli/Mendoza
Behaviors in Light by JNZNBRK (I wonder if it could be even cooler if the pieces moved and formed different patterns and shadows…)
Plane White by Carina Ow (parts list):
Glass portals
Area 15 in Vegas
Besides Omega Mart and Lost Spirits distillery, Area 15 also has some other great displays. Here’s one of the best reviews I’ve found online and helped me figure out which things I’d like to see when I go.
Papercraft animals
Wolfram Kampffmeyer crafts vibrant paper polygon sculptures and taxidermy-style busts that he then translates to DIY kits sold under the Paperwolf brand. Minimal and playfully colored, Kapffmeyer’s menagerie includes a seated koala, multiple birds in flight, and of course, the original wolf. In addition to patterning pieces for his Etsy shop, the designer also works on a variety of commissions and collaborations, which result in large-scale sculptures in steel and wood.
Dinner Party VR experience
Dinner Party is a VR movie experience that tells the story of Barney and Betty Hill, an American couple who claimed they were abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of the state of New Hampshire from September 19 to 20, 1961. It was the first widely publicized report of an alien abduction in the United States. Their story was adapted into a best-selling 1966 book The Interrupted Journey and a 1975 television film The UFO Incident.
Now, it’s been turned into a VR movie experience. You start by going into a real world 1960’s era dining room set, sit at the table, don your VR goggles, and watch the experience in 360 around you.
Trailer:
Information about how they created the experience:
Crank your art up
Neil Mendoza created ‘mechanical masterpieces’ – an art installation that lets you poke, inflate, add water, or even a disco ball to 5 classic paintings. The interactive work was created for the children’s museum of Pittsburgh as part of it’s ‘tough art’ residency.
Anonymouse is back again
After taking a break during Covid, the unknown group of artists called Anonymouse are back. The group that primarily works in Sweden creates fantastically detailed miniature building fronts they install into the front of existing buildings. They even light up at night. My hope is to see some of them in real life.
Daniel Rozins’ Mechanical Mirrors
If you’re in New York City, you can see artist Daniel Rozins’ mechanical mirrors at bitforms gallery Here are two sculptures, “CMY Shadows Mirror” and “RGB Peg Mirror.” Both works reproduce full-color reflections, although the former uses the subtractive color model and the latter additive color.
CMY Shadows Mirror
RGB Peg Mirror” (2019), anodized aluminum knobs, motors, 3D camera, control electronics, computer, custom software. See more of Rozin’s works on his site and Instagram.
Check out one of his other interactive devices like “Trash Mirror #3″
Cool origami with Jo Nakashima
Jo Nakashima makes some cool origami. Even better, he has a YouTube channel where he shows you how to make some great creations. Give it a look.
Nakagin Capsule Tower comes to an end
Completed in 1972 the Nakagin Capsule Tower was a rare remaining example of Japanese Metabolism (alongside the older Kyoto International Conference Center), an architectural movement emblematic of Japan’s postwar cultural resurgence. It was the world’s first example of capsule architecture ostensibly built for permanent and practical use.
The capsules that make up the main structure of Nakagin Tower were designed to be rotated and replaced every 25 years. However, lack of funds resulted in rotation and replacement of capsules that never took place and ultimately led to a deterioration of the structure.
Inside Japan did a fabulous video that toured the inside of the units and talked with one of the remaining owners.
The building, however, fell into disrepair. Only around thirty of the 140 capsules were still in use as apartments by October 2012, while others were used for storage or office space, or simply abandoned and allowed to deteriorate. There is the additional problem that the structure no longer adheres to modern earthquake standards in quake prone Tokyo.
Now the tower’s time has come and the building is now officially being dismantled. There is one bright spot: the current owners, Tatsuyuki Maeda, explained that a team is trying to preserve some of the capsules and regenerate them as accommodation units and museum installations around the world. Maeda’s statements are based on an announcement by the Kisho Kurokawa Chiyoda-ku Office of Architects and Urban Design that it aims to dismantle the iconic architecture and reuse its capsules as accommodation units and museum installations. Nakagin Capsule Tower A606 Project is extracting and preserving various unique unit components and extracting unit A606 to put on display with all of it’s original equipment.