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NYC – MoMA: Design and the Elastic Mind – XO Laptop


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XO Laptop, from the 1 Laptop per Child (OLPC) project, 2005-ongoing
Nicholas Negroponte (American, b. 1943), Rebecca Allen (American, b. 1953), Mary Lou Jepsen (American, b. 1956), Mark Foster (American, b. 1960), Michail Bletsas (Greek, b. 1967) and V. Michael Bove (American, b. 1960) of 1 Laptop per Child (USA, est. 2005)
Yves Béhar (Swiss, b. 1967) and Bret Recor ( American, b. 1974) of fuseproject (USA, est. 1999)
Jacqes Gagné (Canadian, b. 1959) of Gecko Style (USA, est. 1996)
Colin Bulthaup (American, b. 1976) of Squid Labs (USA, est. 2004)
John Hutchinson (South African, b. 1952) of Freeplay Power Pic. (South Africa, est. 1996)
Quanta (Taiwan, est. 1988)

The XO Laptop is an affordable laptop or computer conceived by One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit program behun at the MIT Media Lab, to be distributed to governments and nongovernmental organizations to schools all ove the globe. XO is the size of a textbook and lighter than a lunchbox. Many attributes serve at least two purposes: Wireless-access antennas double as covers for the USB ports, the manage serves as an attachment for a strap, and the protective bumpter also seals to safeguard dust. The screen has each a full-color mode and a reflective high-resolution mode that is readable in bright sunlight, and a wide track pad doubles as a drawing and writing tablet. If electricity is not accessible, the laptop or computer can be recharged by human-powered devices such as a yoyo-like pull cord.

Style and the Elastic Mind, on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art from February 24-May possibly 12, 2008, explores the reciprocal relationship between science and style in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspirations. The exhibition highlights designers’ capability to grasp momentous modifications in technologies, science, and history—changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior—and translate them into objects that men and women can actually understand and use.

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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in 1929 and is often recognized as the most influential museum of contemporary art in the globe. More than the course of the subsequent ten years, the Museum moved 3 times into progressively larger temporary quarters, and in 1939 lastly opened the doors of its midtown house, located on 53rd Street in between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in midtown.

MoMA’s holdings incorporate a lot more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. Highlights of the collection inlcude Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, Salvador Dali’s The Persisence of Memory, Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiseels d’Avignon and 3 Musicians, Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, Paul Gauguin’s The Seed of the Areoi, Henri Matisse’s Dance, Marc Chagall’s I and the Village, Paul Cezanne’s The Bather, Jackson Pollack’s Number 31, 1950, and Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans. MoMA also owns approximately 22,000 films and 4 million film stills, and MoMA’s Library and Archives, the premier study facilities of their kind in the globe, hold over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and extensive individual files on a lot more than 70,000 artists.

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