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.  [...]

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 [...]

I will be consulting with Tom Bosket frequently to discuss my progress. Tom is the color theory and graphic design coordinator for the AAS degree at Parsons School of design. Here are summaries of topics we discussed along with new questions I compiled after this weeks meeting:
Topics:
1. Being able to recognize color differences [...]

I met with Pam Klein, the associate dean for professional studies at Parsons school of design to discuss my thesis work. She is a painter and a teacher. Specifically she taught color theory for years at various schools around the tri-state area. The conversation was very helpful. She offered exciting suggestions and gave [...]

Interview from the MOMA exhibit “Seeing yourself seeing”.
Relevant quotes from Interview:
“We can take in our surroundings, but as we that also be critical of how we do it.”
“How do we take part in the world that is both responsible and has an impact?”
“We make sense of the world by sensing the world.”