Exhibit Details
Size:
2,000 - 2,500 square feet

Length of Rental:
3 months (90 days)

Target Age:
3rd grade - adult

Included with Rental:
Marketing Materials
Education Manual
Maintenance Support

Contact:
Stephen Ast
Arkansas Discovery Network
500 President Clinton Ave.,
Suite 150
Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone: 501-537-3084
E-mail: sast@amod.org

The first stop in the gallery features Origami sculpture work by Robert Lang, Ph.D., one of the world’s leading origami masters with more than 500 designs catalogued and diagrammed. Lang’s work shows how following simple folding rules and some basic mathematical principals allows the creation of a complex and beautiful 3D world of art made from paper. Your visitors may fold their own work of art to take home or leave for display in the gallery’s “visitor art” section.

Next, visitors will be directed to the “Beautiful Worm,” which combines biology and photography, offering a unique window into the world of scientific research as interpreted through art. This part of the exhibit showcases research of the C. elegans worm by Ahna Skop, Ph.D., assistant professor of genetics at the University of Wisconsin. A real microscope with video head allows visitors to look at live specimens and illustrates what researchers such as Skop have learned from this creature.

Visitors will also enjoy the creations of 1-Bit Music inventor Tristan Perich. The 1-Bit is part art, part physics and part mathematics. 1-bit compositions are delivered to listeners via an on/off switch, micro-chip, battery, earphone jack and volume control all squeezed into a plastic CD case.

Wearable computers can also be found on display in Science & Art. Leah Buechley, assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), uses electronics and textiles to build soft wearable computers. A display of Buechley’s work allows visitors to select and see the different LED display patterns designed and programmed into the fabric.

Rounding out the exhibit is electronic artist and computer scientist Scott Snibbe who introduces visitors to the concept of the nano-scale. “Three Drops,” is a multimedia experience that allows visitors to move in front of a large screen and interact with projections of water at the macro, micro and then nano-scale levels and allows them to experience how the physical properties of water change at these three different scales.

This exhibit will be available for rent to museums and other venues across the United States in early 2011.

For pricing or more information about renting this exhibit, please email Stephen Ast at sast@amod.org.