Cabinets of Wonder Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich For our final Cabinets of Wonder assignment, we were asked to prepare a concept proposal for a new museum or exhibition and present this as a printed case statement like the kind made by … Read More →
Category Archives: Cabinets of Wonder
Refined User Experience Scenario & ITP Winter Show Submission ~ 2011
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Chris and I have been meeting weekly via Skype since early October to develop a comprehensive design direction document for our eleven soundwalk movements. In November, we invited Kevin Bleich to join the project … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ Kinect Presence Sensing ~ Center of Mass Detection
Cabinets of Wonder Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Because we would like the Volumes of Voices installation experience to be wires-free, we’ve decided to work with the Kinect sensor. To find out whether the Kinect can do what we imagine, Kevin and … Read More →
Recipe for an Exhibition
You will need: Curiosity. Also, imagination. A desire to explicate the unfamiliar. Passion for untested endeavors. An interest in patterns. Respect for constraint. First, simplify. Distill the amalgam of program and mission into elegant tangibles. Identify challenges. Transform these into your scheme. Combine one part … Read More →
The Neighborhood as Time Capsule ~ Visiting the Tenement Museum
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger First Impressions Orchard Street is a museum of its own. As I left the subway station at East Broadway and walked up Essex Street toward Orchard, I felt transported back to the late nineteenth century, when immigrants living on … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ Concept Development for a Site-Specific (ITP) Installation
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Christopher Carlson NOTE: This project extends a concept developed at ITP during the 2011 spring semester in Daniel Perlin’s course, Sound and the City. Concept Volumes of Voices takes listeners on an immersive, musical journey through the New … Read More →
MoMA Reflections ~ Museum Visit and Curator Talk
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger I visited MoMA on a Sunday morning, expecting to find a long line wrapping around the block, as I had on other weekends, but on this morning there were only two people ahead of me waiting to buy tickets, … Read More →
MoMA Gallery Talks Go Online?
Cabinets of Wonder Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Ji Hyun Lee, Luisa Pereira Hors, Rose Schlossberg Assignment/Challenge “Think about the challenge posed by Beth Harris, Director of Digital Learning: ‘How to translate the magic of what happens on a great gallery talk to the online experience. … Read More →
Perspectives on the American Nuclear Family (1776 – Present)
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger The definition of the American nuclear family is contentious. Does it include same-sex couples with adopted children, stepparents, stepbrothers, stepsisters, half-siblings, single parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or others? This diorama explores the American family unit, from the country’s founding … Read More →
Visiting the American Museum of Natural History ~ Summary and Reflection
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger I usually enter the American Museum of Natural History through the entrance on Central Park West, up the main steps and past the bronze statue, then into the Hall of North American Mammals. Today, though, the main entrance was … Read More →
Visiting Museums ~ Summary and Reflection
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger I spent Sunday afternoon at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Wednesday afternoon at the Jewish Museum on the corner of 92nd Street and Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side. First Impressions The contrast between the two museums … Read More →
Volumes of Voices ~ ITP Winter Show 2011 (documentation)
ITP Winter Show 2011 December 18 & 19, 2011 Collaborators: Christopher Carlson, Kevin Bleich Listeners wander through our 9′ x 9′ space with a pair of headphones. Transient fragments of voices, papers rustling, poetry, and music emerge and evaporate as a result of the listener’s … Read More →