It’s like art, and science, and technology all smooshed into one.
Hylozoic Veil
Philip Beesley's Hylozoic series is not just an art installation, Hylozoic Veil is an immersive, evolving environment that responds to your presence.
Hylozoic Veil uses physics, chemistry, sculpture, biology, materials science, engineering, manufacturing in a combination not imagined before. This installation explores responsive architectural systems that may someday recognize and react to our needs.
- from the web site.
This giant thing fills the center of the museum and hangs from the ceiling.
It has tons of tiny sensors that pick up any change in heat, moisture, and air movement and moves or… grows accordingly.
That means you can watch as people walk around it and those long feathery fingers curl up or relax and those glowing jars of fluid are growing little clumps of plant life.
There is a wide variety of exhibits; from interactive population graphs to motion capture filming, to prostheses.
Definitely more engaging to children who can read but that doesn’t mean you have to leave your toddlers at home.
We spent most of our time upstairs in the Rendering exhibit.
Brooke in the motion capture room. Making that elf busta move.
playing with a green screen.
4 digital touch coloring screens (in the table) stream in to one scrolling image (on the wall).
I guess I only took video of the cool still frame movies they made.
There was a camera mounted above a desk and they would place pictures or toys on and click the shutter.
Then move the pictures or toys just a little bit and click again until they had 20 –30 pictures then they just hit the playback button and their pictures could stream together into a short film.
The all appreciated Claymation much more after that.
Over in the prosthesis exhibit they could see what they would look like with an artificial leg.
And have a turn at what it might feel like.
Downstairs in The Lab
The girls followed an elephant drawing tutorial.
Way better than I’ve ever done!
When we were too hungry for Wingers to absorb anymore coolness we headed back to the van.
Which was parked under the cool Library. So we had to explore that for a minute.
Great view of daddy’s office building.
heading inside for a glass elevator ride
And downstairs to Superman’s ice cave reading room.
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