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M.O.N.H Moveable Museum

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 [...]

Beau Lotto:Optical Illusions

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 [...]

Mobile Museums

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

NY Public art fund

http://www.publicartfund.org/

N.Y.F.A (New York Foundation for the arts)

http://www.nyfa.org/level2.asp?id=1&fid=1

StoryCorps

http://www.storycorps.org/your-community

C.A.N (Community arts network)

http://www.communityarts.net/

Optical Illusions

Akiyoshi’s illusions pages were recommended by my classmate, Antonias.  There are a lot of fun illusions to explore.

Article from Computer Arts

Image from Visualthinking.org
This article from Computer Arts.com is a look at color and branding.  The author, touches on several interesting issues related to color and design. Politics, cutlure, branding ownership and theory of color are just a few topics.  I am interested in the idea of “owning a color”, as many corporate brands have attempted [...]

LottoLab

Lottolab studio creates public installations, musical performances and educational programmes, and performs carefully controlled experiments on the perception and behaviour of humans, bumblebees and evolved artificial life systems in laboratory and public realms.