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 [log in to unmask] phone: 612.375.7686