LOT-EK, BAM galas

Brooklyn Academy of Music galas

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Brooklyn Academy of Music galas

temporary environments for large communal dinners and parties as our opportunity to test the ephemeral

type

exhibition/event design installations

installed

1996, 1997, 1998

location

New York

size

30,000SF ~1,000 diners

client

BAM - Brooklyn Academy of Music

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concept & vision

for 3 years we designed and built these one-night environments for BAM's galas. We played with garbage bags and TV sets, bringing digital faces at the dinner table; then with fluorescent tubes running through the diners and mirrored above them, immersing them in blue light and glowing text; and lastly enveloped extra long tables within digital walls of projections

impact & significance

testing the ephemeral quality of construction materials, moving light, reflection, moving image, to transform the dinner experience, radically and playfully