i just discovered the museums and the web conference website, a creative commons site containing all the latest developments in trying to market art to the masses through internet portals to museums. many museums have opened on-line portals, and some of them even exist in second life or their own on-line versions. once a museum […]
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lubrication station
kiwon park‘s installation at the reina sofia museum in madrid features two rooms with walls coated in industrial grease and the floor covered in what appear to be once-inflated vinyl tiles. while most rooms don’t make you want to touch the walls, covering them in disgusting grease has at once the effect of making you […]
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secular saint
in the museum of the history of science in florence there is an unusual reliquary: the middle finger of galileo galilei, alongside his famous retraction (in english and italian): I, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei of Florence, seventy years of age, arraigned personally for judgment, kneeling before you Most Eminent and Most Reverend […]
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blow-up museum
inflatable technologies usa makes self-erecting buildings for emergency shelter and military applications. they also developed this museum from inflatable modules
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angle vision
this 18th century prism mount from the museum of history of science in florence allows you to measure and visualize the angles at which light splits, just like this interface in the luminous room by john underkoffler (1998).
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audible gravity
long before newton, galileo galilei determined the first laws of physics – including the acceleration of falling objects (the total distance covered, starting from rest, is proportional to the square of the time) and that a mass moves at a constant speend unless acted upon by another (like friction). he performed his experiments by rolling […]
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renaissance gadgets 1
this is the first of many posts from the science history museum in florence (museo di storia della scienza) – an armillary sphere (sfera armillare) representing the entire earth and plotting the extents of the sky in carved and guilded wood. commissioned by ferdinando 1 de’medici and built by antonio santucci in florence in 1588-1593 […]
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