Projects
Donor Recognition System
Irish College
Period Rooms Touchscreen
Wayshowing and Elevator Display
Wayshowing System
Pledge Wall
The Boisterous Sea of Liberty
Reception Desk
Nobel Peace Center
Revolution Lounge
CRX Display
Churchill Lifeline Table
Hall of Ideas
Illuminated Manuscript
Asia Society
L'Oréal Poetry Harp
Museum of Sex
Honda Safety Interactive
Talmud Project
Human Genome Interactive
Stream of Consciousness
Food for Thought
Work
MIT Media Lab
Talmud Project, New York, NY, 1999
The Talmud Project, exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's first National Design Triennial, explores the simultaneous display of multiple related texts. Several dials allow the reader to trace ideas from one text to another, examine translations and find text in the larger context of the full corpus.
From the New York Times,
March 10, 2000:
"David Small's Talmud Project is a work of genius. A prototype for an interactive book, produced at the MIT Media Lab, the project may be the Triennial's most powerful piece of architecture. Combining passages from the Torah and the Talmud, in English and French translations, the software enables viewers to manipulate blocks of text into the walls, streets and windows in an imaginary city of words..."
MIT Media Lab
Stream of Consciousness, Monaco; Japan; Los Angles; Linz; Taiwan, 1999
Water briskly flows down a series of cascades into a glowing pool. Projected on the surface of the pool and flowing as if they were caught in the water's grasp are a tangle of words. You can reach out and touch the flow, blocking it or stirring up the words causing them to grow and divide, morphing into new words that are pulled into the drain and pumped back to the head of the stream to tumble down again. This work has been exhibited in Monaco, Japan, L.A., Linz and most recently, Taiwan.