"Bright" part of the "Beautiful Knowledge Exhibition" -
Big Data Art Installation for Fulbright's Gala 60 Anniversary
I teamed up with three designers that learned with me at HIT - Gil Zablodovsky, Max Bassin and David Kantor to create an art installation.
My role was to develop the concept and manage the project.
The installation used heavenly spheres to represent connections between the scientific data produced by Israel’s Fulbright scholars and supplied by Elsevier, with each article serving as a star around which its citations gravitate.
The process I led included:
1. Discussing the brief with the customer and Dr. Avi Muller, curator of the Beautiful Knowledge exhibition
2. Budgeting
2. Developing the concept: brainstorming, sketching and presenting together with the team to the stakeholders
3. Managing the implementation done by different team members: Collecting data, analyzing data, after effects prototyping, after effects final movies, presentation, PR materials
4. Planning exhibition installation: means and technicalities
5. Preparation and installation
It was a wonderful and intense experience with some significant takeaways for me:
1. Finding the golden mean between art and data, poetics and logic
2. Delivering art on time, focus on what's important and achievable in a given timeline
3. I love conceptualizing, managing and teaming up for art & multidisciplinary projects