The idea for displaying the works – none of which are for sale – came from William Ruprecht, president of Sotheby's, and Tobias Meyer, the auction house's director of contemporary art, when they visited the Cohens for dinner.
(Cassity doesn't talk as much about his idea for displaying DNA samples of the dead in an illuminated globe — a concept that had only three takers. And the globes leaked).
Eighty artists and artists groups were invited to come up with ideas for a display and the commission has been awarded to KMA, a collaboration between UK media artists Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler.
Already, the German Metro Group, which deals in over 1.2bn euros ($1.4bn £0.9bnn) of fish products a year, has ideas for putting display boards at shop counters that would allow consumers to check, through the sale barcode, precisely where on the seas that fish supper was caught, even providing the name of the trawler involved.
At a second show, after the gallery moved down the road, Liversidge had a new idea for a display: to send 400 rulers in batches of 50 to the new location and put them on a new 'postal shelf', all in time for its opening.
Q: Can you give us an idea for strategy for display advertising (doubleclick, Youtube, etc)?
Towards establishing community standards and developing ideas for the 3D display of biological data on the world wide web we have launched the 3D Data Display Initiative (http://3ddi.org).org
She, on the other hand, already has firm ideas for her wedding, displayed on her board, including napkins with favorite song lyrics written on them and a particular dress style.
While initially only in France, Decaux's idea for Plexiglas displays was expanded worldwide to airports, malls, subways and billboards, with the help of his now co-chief executive sons Jean-Charles, 36, and Jean-François, 47, along with nephew Jean-Luc, 38.
