Commission by the Musée d'art contemporaine de Montréal for the 50th anniversary of Expo 67, including an installation at the museum and a site specific radio station at the US Pavilion. SITE-SPECIFIC RADIO MUSEUM INSTALLATION The museum installation was composed of 55 Elements organized into 9 Nodes displayed with a custom built exhibition design along a historical axis:
I. Patents
II. DEW Line
III. Dark Side of Apollo
IV. Bubbles
V. McLuhan’s Galaxy’s
VI. The Idea of North
VII. The World Game
VII. Communities of Tomorrow
IX. Inner Space / Outer Space
I. Patents
01
R. Buckminster Fuller
4D Tower
Murale / Mural
1927-192802
Alexander Graham Bell
Drôme #5
Photographie / Photograph
190903
Zeiss
Zeiss Planetarium Construction and Dome, brevet / patent
Images de livre / Images in Book
1922-192504
United States Marine Corps
A Study of Logistical Shelters
Imprimé / Printed Matter
1954-195505
R. Buckminster Fuller
Architecture Out of the Laboratory in University of Michigan Student Publication
Imprimé / Printed Matter
195506
Alexander Graham Bell
Ariel Vehicle or Other Structure, Brevet #770,626 / Patent #770,626
Imprimé / Printed Matter1902-1904
07
R. Buckminster Fuller
Cartography, Brevet #2, 393,676 / Patent #2, 393,676
Imprimé / Printed Matter
1944-194608
R. Buckminster Fuller
Building Construction, Brevet #2,682,235 / Patent #2,682,235
Imprimé / Printed Matter
1951-195409
R. Buckminster Fuller
Octet Truss, Brevet #2, 986,241/ Patent #2,986,241
Imprimé / Printed Matter
1956-196110
Shoji Sadao et R. Buckminster Fuller
Hexa-Pent, Brevet #3, 810,336 / Patent #3,810,336
Livre / Book
1970-1983
II. DEW Line
11
Presses de Queen’s University / Queen’s Press
Relative Danger During an Air Raid
Imprimé / Printed Matter
c.194012
International Business Machines (IBM)
5081 Punch Card from USAF Base Thule
c.196013
MIT Lincoln Laboratory et R. Buckminster Fuller
31ft Diameter Rigid Space-Frame Radome Prototype
195414
Western Electric (Bell Systems)
DEW Line Story
Film transféré en média numérique, 28 min / Film Transfer to Video, 28 min
195815
International Business Machines (IBM)
SAGE Computer Advertisement
Film transféré en média numérique, 3 min / Film Transfer to Video, 3 min
c.196016
LIFE Magazine
Here the US Fights the Coldest War
Magazine17
United States Air Force
Base aérienne de Thulé, Groenland: Pièce militaire / Thule Air Base, Greenland: Military Challenge Coin
Object
Date unknown18
Aviation royale du Canada / Royal Canadian Air Force
Alerte CFS : Pièce militaire / CFS ALERT: Military Challenge Coin
Object
Date unknown19
United States Air Force
DEW Line, Project 572, Prefab Module, Radar Unit #6
Blueprint
1956
III. Dark Side of Apollo
20
North American Space Agency (NASA)
Debrief: Apollo 8 (with Pink Floyd Piper at the Gates of Dawn Synched Soundtrack)
Film transféré en média numérique, 27 min / Film Transfer to Video, 27 min
1969
21
Stewart Brand
Whole Earth Catalog (Fall 1969)
Livre / Book
196922
Soviet Central Design Bureau of Experimental Machine Building (TsKBEM)
Dark Side of the Moon by Luna-3 Orbitor
Photographie / Photograph
195923
United States Air Force (USAF)
Whole Earth Image from Dodge Satellite, Aug 1967
Photographie / Photograph
196724
North American Space Agency (NASA)
Whole Earth Image from AST-3 Satellite Nov 1967
Photographie / Photograph
196725
Meteorite (Impact Date: June 1967, Seymchan, USSR)
Object
1967
IV. Bubbles
26
Yves Klein et Werner Ruhnau
Project of an Air Architecture
Texte et image de livre / Text and Image in Book
196127
Office of the United States Commissioner General
American Painting Now Press Release
Imprimé / Printed Matter
196728
Harald Szeemann
Science Fiction
Grand format / Broadsheet
196729
Lucy Lippard
557,087 Index Cards (with N.E. Thing Co., Lawrence Weiner, R. Barthelme, Mel Bochner)
Imprimé / Printed Matter
1969
V. McLuhan’s Galaxy’s
30
Marshall McLuhan
Distant Early Warning Playing Cards
Imprimé / Printed Matter31
Marshall McLuhan
The Medium is the Massage
Livre / Book
196732
Marshall McLuhan
The Medium is the Massage
Disque vinyle et pochette / Vinyl Record with Cover
196733
Marshall McLuhan
Letter to Buckminster Fuller: Sept. 17, 1964
Livre / Book
1964
VI. The Idea of North
34
Glenn Gould
Idea of North
Affiche / Poster
35
Glenn Gould
Idea of North
Esquisse/ Sketch
VII. The World Game
36
R. Buckminster Fuller
How Little I Know
Imprimé / Printed Matter
196637
R. Buckminster Fuller et Guy Mercier
Buckminister Fuller and the World Game
Imprimé / Printed Matter
197138
R. Buckminster Fuller et Gene Youngblood
The World Game
Imprimé / Printed Matter
c.197039
R. Buckminster Fuller
Nine Chains to the Moon, extrait / extract
Grand format / Broadsheet
1938/197440
R. Buckminster Fuller
The Age of Astro-Architecture
Imprimé / Printed Matter
1968
Communities of Tomorrow
41
Walt Disney
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (E.P.C.O.T.)
Film transféré en média numérique, 25min / Film Transfer to Video, 25min1966
42
David Jacobs
An Expo Named Buckminster Fuller
Imprimé / Printed Matter
196743
USSR Chamber of Commerce, Moscow
Guide to the Soviet Union Pavilion
Imprimé / Printed Matter
196745
Expo 67
Official Guide
Livre / Book
196746
I. Kalin
Survey of Building Materials, Systems, and Techniques
Livre / Book
196747
Expo 67
Adult Passport
Imprimé / Printed Matter
196748
Expo 67
Youth Passport
Imprimé / Printed Matter
196749
Monnaie royale Canadienne / Royal Canadian Mint
Médaillon du centenaire de la confédération canadienne / Canadian Centennial Medallion
Object
196750
Albert Hofman
Diéthylamide de l’acide lysergique (LSD) – 25 / d-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide - 25
Object
193851
Graeme Ferguson
OmnIMAX Plans for Biosphere [Plan View]
Dessin / Drawing
197852
Graeme Ferguson
OmnIMAX Plans for Biosphere [Cross-Section View]
Dessin / Drawing
197853
Doug Lehman
American Pavilion Geodesic Dome on Fire
Murale / Mural
1976
IX. Inner Space / Outer Space
54
Fabio Fabiano et Michelange Panzini
Solair Chair
Métal et Plastique / Metal and Plastic
197255
Charles Stankievech
Geodesic Transmission [The model]
Cuivre et transmetteur FM / Copper, FM Transmitter and Audio Player
2017
