DIGITAL CAMPFIRES is an innovative interactive media exhibition exploring design
in the digital age. Organized by the Walker Art Center to open March 1996,
DIGITAL CAMPFIRES will present interactive media in an installation of four
unique spaces: the Lobby, Reading Room, Campfire, and Theater, designed by
industrial futurists Fahnstrom/McCoy, Chicago. Five teams of preeminent visual
communicators, writers, and technologists are creating works especially suited
to each room. These works explore a wide range of subject matterQpolitics,
dreams, science, and even the mystery novelQand at the same time, their
interactivity suggests distinct methods of decision-making and thresholds of
democracy. The designers commissioned are April Greiman, Los Angeles; Kathy
McCoy, Detroit; Bates/Hori, New York; P. Scott Makela, Minneapolis; and ReVerb,
Los Angeles.
 
An extensive education program, a printed brochure, interactive didactics, and a
CD-ROM sampler will be essential elements of the exhibition. In addition,
internet dialogue (site provided by Emigre magazine) before, during, and after
the exhibition will constitute an on-line, interactive comment book.  The
exhibition will travel to at least three other nationally recognized
institutions, including the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, New  York.
 
We are establishing a touring schedule now!
For more information contact:
Laurie Haycock Makela
Design Director
Curator, Digital Campfires
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phone:  612.375.7686