ColoriumLaboratorium

I met with a Rutgers Psycology professor names Alan Gilchrist (thanks to a referral from Thomas Bosket).  I got a tour of his psychology laboratory where he studies the visual system and how it percieves light and dark.  It was increadibly useful to see the experiments he does and the reasons why he does them.  [...]

The Bauhaus Exhibit at the Moma gave me great ideas for materials and simple tools I can use for workshops in the laboratorium. Color excersices that were created by Klee, Kandinsky, Albers, Itten and Schmidt were especially useful.
Here are some quotes from the exhibit that I found helpful:
“The tone of greatest intensity varies with each [...]

This article posted on Think tank (www.adobe.com) has some great quotes and feedback from interactive designers. Gideon D’Arcangelo, design manager at ESI was interviewed in the article and gives some great feeback about the state of interactivity in design.  Here are few examples:
” Museums are becoming part of a two-way dialogue.”
” The best interactive exhibits [...]

This interview with Ruben Ochoa explains his “Class C” project, which is a van he transformed into a moveable art gallery.
Some key quotes from the interview:
The project “parallels a system (referring to an art gallery sytem), but takes it into another direction, a moveable direction”  The van “takes away the magic behind the scenes and [...]

The Museum of Natural History in NY has an educational exhibition in the form of a mobile gallery.    It  is called Moveable Museum. There are Five Moveable museums total, which are each their own theme:
1. Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries
2. Discovering the Universe
3. Structures and Culture (about the homes and lives of three modern nomadic [...]

This is an awesome presentation given by Beau Lotto, founder of Lotto Lab at the TED conference in 2009
Here is an linear overview of key ideas from the presentation:
“Context is everything”
“Context tells us who we are as individuals and who we are in a society”
“Color allows us to see differences between surfaces according to the [...]

I found several examples of museums and galleries that are mobile.  Bicycles, trucks, vans and carts are some of the methods of transport. Here are some examples:
The mobile Museum by Ally Reeves
Worlds Largest Things by Erika Nelson
Black History 101 by Khalid El-hakim
Mobile Museum of Material Culture by Kara Ginther and Maggie Sasso
SF Mobile Museum

Here is a short brief of color broken down into 7 categories. It is taken from a blog about media and the web.

Here are a few websites dedicated to the creation of music through color and light.
DataIsNature
RhythmicLight
LightMatters

Jim Lambie creates installations using layers of mixed media.  He uses color tape to create an illusion of layers on pre-exisisting architectural objects, like floors and stairs.  The Mach Band is an illusion that I see happening in some of his work. Victor Vasarely used this illusion in a lot of his work as well.