When people saw our
Blind Reading installation, they often ask, “How does it work?”
The fact that the piece is an art installation and not a design artefact must not be obvious. Even the speeches alluded to results of design research (when there is, as far as I can tell, only
one product design presentation in the whole exhibition). Even
the official blog of the exhibition sounds as if they got it wrong and thought our art piece was a design artefact.
But at least the installation held up for the evening. (The realization that, other than the incorrect wiring, the root cause of our problem was
mechanical in nature helped immensely.) People did ask, we tried to explain, and I hope we got our points across. I still fear Wednesday: I have never been on this side of the table at an artist’s talk before, and I have not gone to enough artist’s talks, but my consolation is that I will probably not be the one doing most of the talking.