Anyone who has spent an hour (or more) standing in the withering heat of Las Vegas just to watch the Bellagio fountains will probably find this as exciting as I do.
I love that his art is ending up in Science museums. Displays like that are some of my favorite things about good science museums.
The Funworks in New Orleans was the joy of my being for many reasons, but the best part was the gigantic bubble-dome maker. Not strictly installation art, but oh, I thought the colors were beautiful.
I thoroughly agree. When I have taken kids through, it's that kind of thing that catches their eyes and imagination, and makes them realize that science can be fun.
As fascinating, I'd think, would be the knowledge that it's being done by computer. While that might be off-putting to folks with a conditioned view of art as, "That Thing Done in an Attic by People who are Starving," a lot of the kids I've worked with are very open to the idea of working with computers to create things--and are just as likely to understand and be fascinated by the process of programming and designing the exhibit as they are the exhibit itself. (Slightly different age groups, obviously, but hey--gives the work resonance with a larger age group.)
The kids I know may not be representative, but maybe!
The different attitude people of various age groups have toward computers is fascinating. (Not to mention what constitutes art for this or that person.)
The Funworks in New Orleans was the joy of my being for many reasons, but the best part was the gigantic bubble-dome maker. Not strictly installation art, but oh, I thought the colors were beautiful.
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The kids I know may not be representative, but maybe!
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*kids and adults.
I do wish El-Jay would get on with the process of letting ordinary users edit their comments. *sigh*
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