ColoriumLaboratorium

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 [...]

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.

DrawingwhileDriving is an art blog that showcases lots of art and sculpture.  The artists work and live in their studio, which is a truck.  There is not much on the blog about the truck, it is mostly art and artshows…..but I really like what they do and how they do it.

Airan Kang_02 from julia vallera on Vimeo.
Textule Landscape: Real and Imagined is a show at the Bryce Wolkowitz gallery in Chelsea.  There were several interesting instillations I found inspiring, but one in particular was  a great use of color and light.  Airan Kang built a book shelf filled with books that light up with various [...]

I went to the Andrea Rosen Gallery in Chelsea this weekend to see a show my thesis teacher recommended  called Proposals for a Chromatic Modernism

This tower of glass cubes by Josiah Mcelheny was a fun sculpture to stare at.  Their were only about 5 or 6 different colors of cubes used repeatedly, but the layered [...]