EXPERIENCE DESIGN
These Smithsonian projects were approved, encouraged and/or funded, but ultimately weren’t produced:
Year of Music project: Making Brian Eno’s landmark ambient music Apollo available to visitors at the National Air and Space Museum, to mitigate what is overwhelming noise for some visitors, a universal design for sensory sensitivities. Approved by the Year of Music Committee and by Brian Eno, but Universal Music’s rights have not been settled and Smithsonian counsel hasn’t pursued.
A one-year funded project to coordinate over 40 staff members for a collaborative, temporary redesign of the Great Hall of the Smithsonian Institution Building (The Castle) for a unified experience that ranged from from iPad content to living walls, pending renovations. Completed plans not produced due to staffing changes.
Installing solar windows that use cutting edge technologies allowing visitors to charge phones from transparent windows, while adding UV protection and revamping the approach to the Castle building. Left under consideration.
Independent multimedia work with Impossible Theater reflects early projection mapping and experimental immersive theater. Impossible Theater last performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, followed by a 6-week residency at the Banff Center (Canada). National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities funding. Other venues included:
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Maryland Art Place
Cornell University
Ordway Music Theater, St. Paul
Painted Bride, Philadelphia
Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh
Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History
