Jean Tinguely Museum Basel CD-ROM Review
A CD-ROM on Jean Tinguely's work, designed by Michel Jaffrennou and graphically realized by Grégory Pignot, has been released by Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Victory Interactive Media. The interactive interface allows navigation through Tinguely's oeuvre, situating each piece within the collection, the artist's career, and post-war avant-garde movements. A standout feature is a 'toolbox' that implements Tinguely's concept of 'chance in action,' enabling random navigation from a scrap heap of words selected by the user. The CD-ROM is praised as a digital extension of Tinguely's mechanical adventure, embodying his motto 'Immobility does not exist.' Norbert Hillaire notes that this tool meets long-standing expectations for a genuine 'digital writing' in multimedia.
Key facts
- CD-ROM on Jean Tinguely released by Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Victory Interactive Media.
- Concept by Michel Jaffrennou, graphic design by Grégory Pignot.
- Interface allows navigation through Tinguely's works, collection, career, and art movements.
- Includes a 'toolbox' for random navigation based on Tinguely's 'chance in action' concept.
- Tinguely's motto: 'Immobility does not exist.'
- Review by Norbert Hillaire in artpress.
- CD-ROM is seen as a digital continuation of Tinguely's mechanical art.
- Praised for enabling transversal paths and correlations between approaches.
Entities
Artists
- Jean Tinguely
- Michel Jaffrennou
- Grégory Pignot
- Norbert Hillaire
Institutions
- Réunion des Musées Nationaux
- Victory Interactive Media
- Musée Jean Tinguely
- artpress
Locations
- Basel
- Switzerland
Sources
- artpress —