Sonumbra, an architectural textile that collects solar energy during the day and then gives it off at night. By Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl, for Loop, pH. (Photos by C-M.)
We only got to do the briefest jog-through of MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit due to an impending job-related meeting. But the little bit that we glimpsed was damn interesting. Some of the technology presented in the show has some interesting real-world applications (portable solar panels can provide electricity in the smallest of off-the-grid villages); some of it just makes for good show-and-tell (coffins with dildos). Our photos are sparse, but the exhibit was not. (We’ll be back.) In the meantime, you can check out the show’s website, where some programmer clearly went totally postal with Flash.
Money shots after the jump.
Sonumbra, by Rachel Wingfield and Mathias Gmachl, for Loop, pH.
GROW, prototype, a series of flexible “leaves”–actually, solar power panels–that absorb solar energy. By Samuel Cabot Cochran and Benjamin Wheeler Howes for SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology).
La región de los pantalones transfronterizos. Five people in the San Diego/Tijuana area were given clothing with embedded GPS units. Their movements, around and through the U.S./Mexico border were then tracked via satellite. (See video of the piece.) By Raúl Cárdenas Osuna and Torolab.
Detail of New City, a video of virtual communities by Peter Frankfurt, Greg Lynn and Alex McDowell. See a short video with details of the piece.
Also: There’s video of the kinetic work, Emergent Surface, a “dynamic facade” (read: shape-shifting wall) by Chuck Hoberman, Matthew Davis, Ziggy Drozdowski and David Wight. And do not miss Graffiti Archaeology, a web piece by Cassidy Curtis, which contains C-Monster photos of the Candle Building in SoHo! (See the website here.)
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What a great post! I wonder if any of these fabrics contain internal warming units. If so, I might get outdoors and run over to MoMA