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The Exh Files: Part 7

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 […]
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The Exh Files: Part 2

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 […]
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The Installation Chronicles

If you have been to the show, then you have seen the monstrous feat accomplished by our team: transforming the 3rd floor exhibitions gallery from a space that held Picasso’s Guitars to a space full of moving, crying, tweeting, singing, sneezing, crowing, and blinking objects.  There were many challenges that we had to consider–from the […]
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Hello World!

Wondering where we’ve been? We’ve been busy. We went through piles of recommendations and research to decide on the works we would like to introduce, and they are finally being installed here at MoMA. The official Talk to Me website is also in its final stages of development and will launch officially on July 24. In […]
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A New Tab, A New Taxonomy

We have looked at hundreds of objects, and we are not going to stop, at least until Registrar threatens a mutiny. We are continuing to add to the queue, and the more we do research, the more we learn about our ideas for Talk to Me. There might be curators that start with a precise, […]
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The World of Apps

Helga Schmid is an independent researcher who has been helping us navigate the world of apps for mobile devices.  With an eye for design and Talk to Me in mind, she shares some of her conclusions below, as a guest journal-er. See the apps we like here, and the ones we haven’t had a chance […]
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Kate’s Walk

Walking Papers is a project designed by Michal Migurski of Stamen Design in San Francisco. I first learned of it at SXSW in Austin when I heard Michal speak on the “Maps, Books, Spimes, Paper: Post-digital Media Design” panel. Paola also heard about it when she visited Maneesh Agrawala in Berkeley last February, and we were […]
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A Day in The Life

Today we’re kicking off a series of posts entitled A Day in Life, in which we will invite guests to describe a typical day of interactions with objects. We’re starting with Talk to Me “youth advisor” Frankie Michel. Frankie is a student at Bronx Science in New York, and is helping us with research for […]
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Meeting with Designer James King

Paola and I met with speculative/critical/experimental/wonderful designer James King while he was in New York—he is based in London.  It was great to get caught up on what he has been doing since his contribution to Design and the Elastic Mind two years ago. James’s work in biotechnology and interaction design is really interesting, and […]
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The 2009 Feltron Annual Report

The 2009 Feltron Annual Report © Nicholas Felton For every person with whom Nicholas Felton had a “meaningful” encounter in 2009, he asked them to answer an online survey about their meeting. The only requisite is that the encounter was face-to-face and substantial enough so that the person could report about his personality and habits. […]
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