This means that using such devices in the exhibition makes you part of a nominally participatory artwork.
He didn't just use telescopes to peep at women but took a real interest in the optical and calculating devices in this exhibition.
To do so they call on exhibition devices — dioramas, stage props, ambient sound, films, interactive digital displays, extensive interpretive texts — often associated with museums of natural science, ethnology and archaeology.
While we appreciated David Hochman's article on the exhibition "Devices of Wonder" at the J. Paul Getty Museum ["Cabinets, Ancient and New, Full of Wonder for the Eyes," Dec. 30], it gave the false impression that the illusionist Ricky Jay was its mastermind.
The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device.
"It will not be exhibitions, but devices to broadcast the idea of a program," Mr. Wahler said.
The entrance fee, for instance, was quite consciously a means of keeping out the rabble, not a device to enable the exhibition in the first place.
Datamoshing Creator Paul B. Davis is the first artist to feature in a new project by Domenico Quaranta called The MINI Museum of xxi Century Arts, which is actually a portable digital device utilized as an exhibition space rather than a physical gallery.
Made for teaching and exhibition, such tabletop devices consisted of small globes, representing the Sun and planets, that were mounted on wire rods supported and geared at a central pedestal.
As the war in Afghanistan reached a critical stage, Mr. Ridge toured an Energy Department exhibition of counterterrorism devices, addressed a conference on national security, held a town hall meeting at Hofstra University on Long Island and was interviewed tonight by Larry King on CNN.
