happenings

Micro-Installations 2016

A photo of an old TV box displays an image of someone standing in an art gallery. Barely perceptible in the screen is the reflection of the person who took the photo.

November 22, 2016
Rice University

Students of the Fall 2016 Ethnography Studio class

A favorite exercise of our Ethnography Studio classes is the end-of-the-semester micro-installations.

Micro-installations are small projects that push students to materially work and design their projects into visually engaging and conceptually challenging pieces. Here are a few pictures from our end of the year gathering and micro-installation exhibit.

A photo of an old TV box displays an image of someone standing in an art gallery. Barely perceptible in the screen is the reflection of the person who took the photo.
Someone points to paper pages in a binder with green and red text overlaid. Small pieces of colored cellophane lay nearby.
A head of lettuce is wrapped in small lights and sits in a cardboard box. On the inside of the box are photos of vertical indoor farming and conventional agriculture.
A baking sheet holds small primary-colored wooden tiles in various geometric shapes. Next to it are various snacks.
People stand over a small computer, with a screen showing red and blue squares.
A hand moves political pictures next to pieces of paper that have numbers written out on them.
A cardboard box is propped up sideways. Arranged inside are teabags with Disney-related images glued to the front. The effect is to make it look like logos or icons on a computer screen. In front of the box is a standard computer keyboard.
A few people stand around a wooden conference table that displays various mini art installations.
People stand in conversation in a small conference room with narrow windows.