New York attracted more than 48 million tourists in 2010. Up 7% compared to 2009. With over 6500 new jobs. If you haven't been there ( I for one didn't) there's a great reason to visit this year. Or so it seems. The MoMA is preparing for Talk to Me: an exhibition on the communication between people and objects that will open at The Museum of Modern Art on July 24th 2011. It will feature a wide range of objects from all over the world, from interfaces and products to diagrams, visualizations, perhaps even vehicles and furniture, by bona-fide designers, students, scientists, all designed in the past few years or currently under development.
The curating team opened an online journal that will document the process and progress of Talk to Me. Shared are findings, considerations, and explorations as they research, investigate, travel and hear from their networks of designers, artists, scientists and scholars.
Under the queue tab you'll find projects that piqued interest and are awaiting further research, whereas if something is tagged as checked, it has already gone successfully through that phase and it sits in our preliminary database, which will not be final until, probably, the opening day of the show.
By allowing us to have a peek behind the scenes of Talk to Me, they hope not only to shed some light on the curatorial process, but also to gather feedback in the form of comments to the posts, free-floating ideas, and suggestions. Nice.
Here's a project in queue by a former Design Academy Student: Florian Krautli's Human Antenna.
Human Antenna from Florian Kräutli on Vimeo.
