smART Space

JUMBLE - Julie Alpert and Andy Arkley

Jumble is an interactive installation that combines cut wood shapes, projection mapping, and original music. Up to 16 visitors at a time can interact by pressing buttons that trigger video and sound. Depending on the combination of buttons pressed, a unique sound and visual composition is created.

Synced to original music, colorful patterns are projected onto a jumble of cut wood shapes borrowed from artists Andy Arkley’s and Julie Alpert’s visual languages. There are oversized recognizable everyday forms like bows, chains, and cleaning product bottles, and stream-of-consciousness shapes abstracted from childhood and the mundane.

The goal of Jumble is to activate the senses by encouraging play and collaboration and to experience joy while doing it.

Tom Shannon: Universe in the Mind | Mind in the Universe

For more than 50 years, artist and inventor Tom Shannon has been exploring the intersections of art, science and technology in unexpected, mind-bending ways. Science Museum Oklahoma guests have the chance to experience his science-inspired art in a new exhibition now open in the museum’s smART Space galleries: “Tom Shannon: Universe in the Mind | Mind in the Universe.”

Shannon’s internationally-renowned work features sculpture that explores scientific themes and natural forces like magnetic fields, large-scale installations, paintings and numerous patented inventions like his synchronous world clock, a version of which is in the Smithsonian Institution’s collection. The smART Space exhibition is his first in Oklahoma and is open through Oct. 25, 2020.