Interface | MoMA

An object, like a phone, or a virtual program, like an app, that facilitates the communication between a person and a machine.

Jonathan Ive, Apple Industrial Design Group iPod 2001
Will Wright SimCity 2000 1993
Naoto Fukasawa Neon Cellular Phone 2005
Toshio Iwai TENORI-ON digital music instrument 2004
One Laptop per Child, Nicholas Negroponte, Rebecca Allen, Mary Lou Jepsen, Mark Foster, Michail Bletsas, V. Michael Bove, Yves Béhar, Bret Recor, fuseproject, Jacques Gagné, Gecko Design, Colin Bulthaup, Squid Labs, John Hutchinson, Freeplay Energy Plc., Quanta XO Laptop from the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project 2005
Pentagram, Lisa Strausfeld, Christian Marc Schmidt, Takaaki Okada, Walter Bender, Eben Eliason, One Laptop per Child, Marco Pesenti Gritti, Christopher Blizzard, Red Hat, Inc. Sugar Interface for the XO Laptop 2006-2007
Björk, Mathias Augustyniak, Michael Amzalag, M/M Paris, Sjón (Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson), Scott Snibbe, Max Weisel, Relative Wave, Sarah Stocker, Mark Danks, Kodama Studios, Touch Press, London, Nikki Dibben, Stephen Malinowski, John F. Simon, Jr. Biophilia 2011
Fernanda Bertini Viégas, Martin Wattenberg Wind Map 2012

When Video Games Came to the Museum
A decade ago, MoMA acquired 14 video games—and kicked off a new era for the collection. Today there are 36, and many are in the exhibition Never Alone.
Paola Antonelli, Paul GallowayNov 3, 2022