Digital Revolution / Tekniska Museet, Stockholm

I was very glad to spend the day at Tekniska Museet, where they hosted the vast exhibition "Digital Revolution", featuring great representations of milestones within interactive art and how open source hardware platforms as well as code has enabled a whole new aesthetic. I saw works from my former teachers and alumni at the New School, and was familiar with most pieces, but regardless had a great time and appreciated seeing many of the pieces that I had read about in real life. 

They had many cool historical electronic appliances and telecommunication tools, such as "Fröken Ur", a device that allowed Swedish citizens to call the telegraph company to get the exact time read out to them in 1916. I also saw an old DYI electronics kit from Philips, reminding me how Arduino has sparked the whole maker movement and how that is nothing new but enabled by the internet and the sharing of ideas. 

"The Year's Midnight" (2011), Raphael Lorenzo Hemmer

"The Year's Midnight" (2011), Raphael Lorenzo Hemmer

"The Treachery of Sanctuary" (2012), Chris Milk

"The Treachery of Sanctuary" (2012), Chris Milk

"Umweld III" (2007), Rob Seward

"Umweld III" (2007), Rob Seward

"BrainWriter" (2014), Not Impossible

"BrainWriter" (2014), Not Impossible