The basic premise of TechnoCRAFT, a new San Francisco gallery exhibition, is that something’s gone wrong in the history of people making things. These days, designers have all the power – and maybe it’s time to put users in control.
Our old hero, futurist, architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller is the subject of an exhibitions and events in Madrid and San Francisco later this year.
Funny how electronics of the ’70s were better dressed than the people who used them, no? Mixed-media artist David “Netherland” van Alphen tackles the decade’s blighted fashions and obsession with sound in a new show at San Francisco’s Gallery 1988.
LEDs are useful for a thousand things, but no one uses them quite as incredibly as Leo Villareal, an American artist who combines thousands of the little lights to make some seriously otherworldly scenes.
If the thought of you sleeping in a museum by yourself for a month isn’t the stuff anxiety attacks are made of, then perhaps you’re just who Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry is looking for.
I’m guessing there’d be two kinds of Gizmodians — those who remember the halcyon days of Australian current affairs television when Ray Martin wore a doyen’s cap, and those who don’t remember such a time. For those who do remember Ray, and who are in Sydney tomorrow (Wednesday, September 22) might like to take a squizz at Ray’s photo exhibition.
One thing I forgot to mention in yesterday’s coverage of the new Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit at the Sydney powerhouse Museum is that it’s a merchandisers dream. And not just the regular Star Wars crap you can pick up at Go-Lo for a couple of bucks either – they’ve got full-sized Master Replica lightsabers, Lego sets (although not the Death Star diorama or the Millennium Falcon), R2-D2 plush back packs and more bobble-heads than I’ve ever seen gathered at one place at a time – seriously, if there was an earthquake, there would be enough bobbling to cause an aftershock just inside the Powerhouse. Nothing there is cheap, but if you’re a collector, you may find something at the exhibition you haven’t been able to pick up in Australia before…