Cambridge, Massachusetts (2011)
String Tunnel generates an episodic, spatial sequence along a conceptualized extension of MIT’s “infinite corridor.” The installation was a part of the MIT 150th anniversary Festival of Arts Science and Technology and consists of a series of overhead nylon threads that create a vault-like canopy flowing from two pieces of existing infrastructure on campus. String is the material of choice in order to maximize the size of the installation inside of a constrained budget. The nylon is configured as six horizontal layers that each transition to the same single vertical line, functioning as a translation from a two dimensional grid of points to a one dimensional line of points. The overall form is apparent from a distance, while the the layers promote the reading of individual strings moving past one another from directly below.
Project completed in collaboration with:
Yuna Kim, Designer
Kelly Shaw, Designer
Photography by George Lin
