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What is Talk to Me?
Talk to Me is an exhibition on the communication between people and objects that opened at The Museum of Modern Art on July 24th 2011. It features a wide range of objects from all over the world, from interfaces and products to diagrams, visualizations, and furniture, dreamed up by by bona-fide designers, students, scientists, all designed in the past few years or currently under development.
As you can tell, our net was cast very wide and the exhibition happened at the end of a long hunting and gathering exercise. This online journal has documented the process and progress of Talk to Me, and lives on to prolong the delight and continue the conversation.
While doing our research we used this blog as a tool to organize out findings: under the queue tab you could find projects that piqued our interest and were awaiting further research, whereas if something was tagged as checked, it had already gone successfully through the initial phase and it sat in our preliminary database, categorized by type of design. When we began organizing the exhibition and the catalogue, we classified our finds in a new way, by scale, under the who's talking? tab. This is how they remain organized today in the exhibition, catalogue and on the official website for the show, www.moma.org/talktome.
By allowing you behind the scenes of Talk to Me, we hope to shed some light on the curatorial process.
—the TTM curatorial team archive
- November 2011 (1)
- October 2011 (11)
- September 2011 (13)
- August 2011 (6)
- July 2011 (1)
- November 2010 (1)
- September 2010 (2)
- June 2010 (2)
- May 2010 (1)
- April 2010 (3)
- March 2010 (4)
categories
- Checked (3)
- Events (1)
- Just In (1)
- Uncategorized (39)
- Updates (1)
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The Exh Files: Part 15
Everything you have always wanted to know about how exhibitions get done, but you’ve never dared ask. The Exh Files bring you into the belly of the monster, not only to shed light on the curatorial process of Talk to Me, but also to cast the spotlight on the unsung heroes and heroines whose work is critical to the success of a show. For the duration of the exhibition, twice a week we will post three profiles of MoMA colleagues that were involved in the making of this show, and of many other MoMA exhibitions.
Isabel Brito
ISABEL BRITO
Framing
Title at MoMA: Matter/Fitter.
Been working at the Museum for: 2 years approximately.
A brief bio: Isabel is from Barcelona but lived in England where she got her Master’s degree from Central Saint Martins before moving to NYC. Prior to coming to work at MoMA, she worked in a frame shop in New Jersey. She is an artist focusing in the contemporary production of drawings and has a background in painting.
Passion outside of MoMA: Her art.
What I did in Talk to Me: She helped out in making labels, wedges, framing and mounting the artwork.
Curatorial Team says: The Framing Shop is also an essential part of MoMA’s operations, so much in every visitor’s face as to almost disappear (see boss Peter Perez’ profile). Curators might have ideas on what they want, but they will soon find out that their expert colleagues have much better ones.
Polly Lai
POLLY LAI
Framing
Title at MoMA: Matter/Fitter.
Been working at the Museum for: 16 years.
A brief bio: I was born in Hong Kong but raised and educated in New York City’s public school system. I am a professional photographer who received an MFA in Combined Media and Photography from Hunter College.
Passion outside of MoMA: I love to cook. My favorite book is ‘My name is Red’ by Orhan Pamuk, which I highly reccomends, and my favorite film is ‘Untitled’.
What I did in Talk to Me: I helped out in making labels, wedges, framing and mounting the artwork.
Curatorial Team says: Let’s for a moment skip the fact that Polly is an outstanding framer and artist and let’s instead concentrate on food: she is very serious when she says she can cook. And she can recommend restaurants, an art all onto itself. Maybe a reflection of the fact that she is such a good “matter/fitter,” she applies meticulous research to anything she tackles, whether it is folding bikes or soup dumplings.
Karlos Carmano
KARLOS CARMANO
Framing
Title at MoMA: Matter/Fitter.
Been working at the Museum for: 4 years.
A brief bio: I was born in El Salvador and raised in New York. I received my MFA in Painting from Hunter College. I love to work at MoMA and being surrounded by a community of artists.
Passion outside of MoMA: Art! And being in my studio.
What I did in Talk to Me: I helped out in making labels, wedges, framing and mounting the artworks.
Curatorial Team says: In this post all devoted to the Framing Shop, what becomes clear is the sense of community (a community of artists) that supports the mission of the Museum. A love and respect for art clearly runs very deep in MoMA and pervades every aspect of the preparation of exhibitions and maintenance of the collection.