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Create sonic architecture with mesh, music, and lights at the New Museum this weekend

2015-08-06T14:50:00-04:00

Museum displays are typically meant to be seen and not touched, but a recent wave of exhibitions is upending those rules. Take DELQA, an interactive music and light installation opening in the New Museum's NEW INC space on August 6. Showcasing the music of Matthew Dear combined with Microsoft's Kinect technology, the project allows participants to touch, push and poke suspended mesh walls to manipulate a musical composition, creating their own unique experience of the space.

If you're on the hunt for weekend plans in NYC, DELQA will be at the New Museum only from August 6-9!

What if a stage could transform and morph to complement the music and dancers around it?

2013-11-11T12:27:00-05:00

The Principals, a Greenpoint-based design studio, set off to explore that intersection of interactive design and technology with an art installation for MoMA PS1's summer Warm Up series. Hit the jump to see how the Spatium Yamamoto installation grooved to the beat for an unforgettable, psychedelic experience this past summer.

The Principals presented their latest interactive installation closing out MoMA PS1's Summer Warm Up series.

Interview: The Principals (Part I.)

2013-06-21T20:35:00-04:00

Can we start by exploring your process of developing an initial idea for a project? You all have very different backgrounds, specialising in metalwork, industrial design and architecture. How do these backgrounds integrate? Can this culmination of different abilities become challenging? It is extremely challenging integrating our different perspectives – based on our specialties, you can encounter all phases and scales of project development simultaneously

Rem Koolhaas and "Tools for Life" called into The Principals Office

2013-04-12T20:19:00-04:00

...even for a big gun like Koolhaas, the global depression has had an impact. Thus his new furniture line for Knoll called “Tools for Life.” It’s a pretty standard track for any architect when the commissions start to dry up; have some interns fart out designs for a furniture line, ship it off to China for production, then slap a price tag on it with no less that 4 zeros and BOOM! you’re back makin’ Bentley payments and wearing Prada suits in no time.

Every week The Principals call someone new into their office, this week it's Rem Koolhaas and "Tools for Life."