MCLUHAN: What about the possibility of designing for artifacts i… — The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of MOVIES a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967, edited by William Buxton, U. of Alberta Press, 2026, pages 70-71

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MCLUHAN: What about the possibility of designing for artifacts in museum environments that are also responsive, in which the audience could experience this participation? So that when they had recognized the nature of the artifacts, why the bells and buzzers would ring from all over the place! HARLEY PARKER: Pinball machine? MCLUHAN: Yeah. PARKER: Large-room pinball machine.

The Museum as Large-Room Pinball Machine, Marshall McLuhan, Harley Parker, and Museum Professionals, 1967, full transcript of MOVIES a seminar at the City Museum of New York, October, 1967, edited by William Buxton, U. of Alberta Press, 2026, pages 70-71

Quote #4841

Year: 1967

Chapters: Museum | Environment

↪ Also at #2119