PAFA Installation

"The Gross Clinic", Thomas Eakins, 1875. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

In conjunction with PAFA After Dark, we are going to be building an installation piece for "Gross Out" on March 31st, 2011. "Gross Out" is an evening gallery opening in honor of Thomas Eakins' "The Gross Clinic"

Goals

• interactive
• take-home element
• late-19th-to-early-20th century (i.e. steampunk) medical theme

Things discussed so far

• remote surgery bot
  • with stereo vision
• DNA extraction
• upgraded Operation game
• "Exquisite Corpse" photo game

Other tasks

• banner for front window
• handout flyers
• project documentation/photography

Constraints

• cost
• time
• complexity
• hands