TechnoFrolics works closely with the educational and museum
communities, and has received enthusiastic endorsements from colleagues in this area, as well as from clients, the press, and the public.

This page provides:

• Articles and Interviews by the Media
• Compliments from Colleagues and Clients
• Writings by TechnoFrolics' Founder David Durlach

• Discover Magazine article (1997)
  
  
• Download a 1996 audio interview with David by the BBC World Service, New Ideas Show in Real Player (1000 Kbyte) or MP3 (4000 Kbyte) formats.
  
  
• Signs of the Times Dancing Banners article (2004)

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Compliments from colleagues and clients

• Woodie Flowers Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical
  Engineering at MIT
  
  
• Rosalind Picard Associate Professor of Computers and Communications at MIT
  
  
• Hands On! Museum Master Planners

Client comments:

• Spin Browser™ video explorer
  
  
• Dancing Banners™ choreographed fabric
  
  
• Hotplates™
  
  
• Dancing Iron Dust
  
  
• Power Distribution Exhibit
  
  
• Special Projects
  • Building Dedication Ceremonies, MIT
  • Magnet Media Exhibit, Boston Museum of Science

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Philosphical

• "Affectionate Technology," (1990) Published in the 1990 Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing Conference Proceedings and reprinted in 1997 in the book Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community;
  
  
• "A Brief Introduction to Feminist Engineering," (1990) Published in the Small Computers in the Arts Network ‘90 Proceedings; and a variety of commercially-focused articles published in industry trade magazines.
  
  
• Artist Statement.

White Papers

• Maintaining Interactive and/or High-Tech Exhibits.
  
  
• Creating Engaging Exhibits, Science-Artworks, and Spaces.

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