MMFX Exhibition opens at IMA (USA)

Following its participation as invited team in last year's Material Manufacturing Effects / MMFX Symposium in Indianapolis (USA), ReD's work is now featured in the MMFX Exhibition, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Here is a short description by curators Keving Kingler and Branko Kolarevic:
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The Indianapolis Museum of Art is presently hosting Manufacturing Material Effects:
Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture, an exhibition that features work from
leading thinkers, designers and manufacturers from around the world who
participated in the 2007 symposium at IMA organized by Kevin R. Klinger and
Branko Kolarevic. The exhibition display was designed, digitally fabricated, and
assembled by a team of graduate and undergraduate architecture students at Ball
State University working with key regional industry partners. Through this
immersive learning experience, a hallmark of Ball State University, students were
transformed by engaging a real world collaborative exchange. Students developed
the display system entirely using digital media and translated files electronically to
drive the production of each specific material. A digital exchange of information
between manufacturers and students was central to the success of the project.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Institute for Digital Fabrication (IDF) with the
Center for Media Design, the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State
University, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, as well as regional industry partners.
Multiple manufacturers have donated materials, facilities, and production time for
the exhibition. These businesses include Indiana limestone, Indiana hardwood
veneer, metals, and plastics specialists.
The exhibition will be on view through June 8, 2008. A formal closing event has
been scheduled for May 30, at 6pm at the IMA. Formal remarks by Ball State
University President, Jo Ann Gora and Indianapolis Museum of Art Director and CEO,
Maxwell Anderson will begin at 6:30.
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For more information, please visit: www.bsu.edu/imade/mmfx