So... I have some ideas that I'm interested in pursuing for this project. I want my creative output to revolve around the 'don't signs' within the museum. These are:
- DON'T run, push other people or play in the museum.
- DON'T touch pictures: fingers and fingernails scratch varnish and paint.
- DON'T touch picture frames: fingers dislodge fragile gilding and very old wood.
- DON'T touch furniture and sculpture: oils from your fingers stain wood and stone and etch your fingerprints into metals.
- DON'T enter the museum with crayons or pencils.
- DON'T open furniture drawers, lift tops, or sit on chairs and tables.
Classen, c. (Ed.). (n.d.) Touch in the Museum. The book of touch. Retrieved from http://faculty.utep.edu/portals/1649/3390HS/Classen%202005%20Touch%20in%20the%20Museum.pdf
- DON'T run, push other people or play in the museum:
Have an interactive wall panel which through the pressure of someone being pushed into it, reacts in some beautiful way which attracts people to look at it. A form of advertisement, potentially advertising lights? Just as an initial concept. Could potentially advertise a lighting company which specialises in lighting and sound for concerts and other big venue type events. Also a type of sound could come from the panel. Changing depending on the pressure presented when someone is pushed into it. This could be succeeded through the use of pressure buttons, which under a certain amount of weight, sets off the sound and/or imaging/lights.
- DON'T touch pictures: fingers and fingernails scratch varnish and paint:
- DON'T touch picture frames: fingers dislodge fragile gilding and very old wood.
A varnished piece of wood which has many types of unvarnished and aged pieces of wood covering it. Hundreds of layers cover the 'nicer' varnished piece. On the varnished piece shows an advertisement of a varnishing company or a type of wood producing company (Parapine?). You as the viewer are needed to scratch the pieces of unvarnished wood and strips of paint to reveal the varnished advertisement underneath.
- DON'T touch furniture and sculpture: oils from your fingers stain wood and stone and etch your fingerprints into metals:
Potentially produce a type of product which reacts to the oils on peoples fingers so slowly create the advertisement of a company. Possibly the police force? Forensics? Giving a visual aid which helps put the police out there. As a way of showing how much evidence we leave behind.
- DON'T touch pictures: fingers and fingernails scratch varnish and paint.
Another idea for this rule is to create an interactive advertisement which advertises exhibitions or even paint companies. I will look into the art movement called pointillism which through the use of dots of paint produces a picture. I famous artist from that era is George Seurat and his most famous painting 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte', 1886. The paint pockets will work like bubble wrap but all shapes and sizes. The pockets will be opaque so that the image which will be produced by popping the products won't be known until at least majority of the pockets are popped. This will create interaction from the consumer or viewer as well as opening up the opportunity to reach people who would not necessarily look into that company or visit the exhibition.
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