Interactive Youth: Exhibition of Innovative Interactive Works of Design From Fresh New Talent EXTENDED until August 17, 2007JULY 18, 2007, NEW YORK, NY: Due to overwhelming interest in the exhibition Interactive Youth, Material ConneXion Inc. has decided to extend the duration of the exhibition until August 17, 2007. Make sure to stop by Material ConneXion’s showroom at 127 W. 25th Street, New York, NY, Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM until 6:00 PM, to see this exciting new work.
From solar bikinis to reactive snowboards to interactive friendship bracelets to rotating orbs, Michael DelGaudio, Anne Hong, Andrew Schneider, and Nick Sears blow up the mold with objects that keep us "in touch" with the things we desire. Fresh talent and fresh technology from the New York University Interactive Telecommunications Program, these recent graduates embark on visions that are refreshingly tangible and simultaneously digital. Challenging our notions of what we think is possible, these young luminaries represent a generation of new designers investigating the relationship between materials and technology. They truly are connected.
Materials are the building-blocks for these technologies and exchanges. With innovative material developments like conductive ceramics, E ink, fiber optics, and photovoltaic cells, it is becoming possible for us to engage more readily with our surroundings, and to establish new dialogues about how we interact. As we develop these interactive technologies, we can anticipate their place in our homes, on our stuff, and in our bodies: the future is in these technologies, and it talks back.
About Material ConneXion®
Founded by George M. Beylerian in 1997, Material ConneXion is a global materials resource and consultancy helping companies overcome their material challenges within the design and development phase by connecting them with the best materials solutions. We offer marketing and consulting services to retailers and manufacturers on all materials-related matters, including material research for product development. Throughout, the emphasis is on innovation, environmental sensitivity and safety.
Headquartered in New York City at 127 West 25th Street, and with offices in Cologne, Germany and Milan, Italy, and in late 2005 Bangkok, Thailand, Material ConneXion provides architects, engineers, industrial and interior designers with information, inspiration and innovation regarding new materials from a broad range of industries that are often overlooked or inaccessible to specifiers. Its library houses over four thousand material samples in eight categories: ceramics, glass, metals, polymers, carbon based materials, cement based materials, natural materials and nature based derivatives. Complete access to the library is available through subscription by visiting its website at www.materialconnexion.com.
