"That's a huge demographic shift," Mr. Lowry said, one that will not necessarily alter the nature of installations but that will change the kind of educational materials the museum provides.
The public nature of many installation projects makes them a natural fit for crowdfunding, Mr. Glassman said.
With almost 9,000 lights, and the long-term, domestic nature of the installation weighing down on Asylum, the team decided to install a full Linux computer into the sculpture.
The deliberately diverse, wide-ranging nature of this installation represents what might be called the diffusion approach to art history.
That was the nature of his installation in the portico of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, where he was one of the artists featured last summer in the exhibition "North Fork/South Fork".
The market for externally projected globes — e.g., Science on a Sphere, the popular devices installed at around 85 institutional locations — is limited by cost, the fixed nature of the installation and the fact that a viewer who gets too close may find herself contemplating one of the memorable descriptions of the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent, "the shadow of God on Earth".
Moreover, each sensor being autonomous, the need for a central acquisition system is avoided, thus reducing the invasive nature of the installation.
The interstitial gaps are an inherent presence in the reactor core because of tolerances in manufacturing the blocks and the inexact nature of their installation.
In terms of retrofitting existing buildings neither the re-insulating nor the underfloor heating options are attractive due to the large added cost and disruptive nature of the installation.
Topics range from the unlikely inspiration of Conan O'Brien and Marcel Duchamp, to the inherantly boring nature of traditional installation art.
