Icon Magazine on Beatie Wolfe's V&A Exhibition
Art: Raw Space: The Raw Space Chamber
The Raw Space Chamber tells the story of Raw Space – the world’s first live 360° AR stream – in its new immersive, portable incarnation. Inside this anechoic chamber (wrapped in NASA-grade Mylar linking to Wolfe’s Raw Space Broadcast), visitors can immerse themselves in a magical and ceremonial listening experience, watching the record come to life via a vintage coin-operated viewport (converted into a VR/AR headset)
Art: The Updated Album Deck Of Cards (Raw Space) - Collaborating With The World’s Leading Designers
The Raw Space Album Deck is an update of Wolfe’s intelligent album deck of cards format, originally conceived for Montagu Square as a type of digital cassette tape. Produced in collaboration with ArtCenter College of Design and its Acting Chair of Graphic Design Sean Adams, each of the Raw Space song cards have been designed by a leading international artist - which includes Erik Spiekermann, Marian Bantjes, Astrid Stavro, Lucienne Roberts et al - to reflect their interpretation of Wolfe’s music. Listeners can simply tap the song card to their phone to instantly play the track and access its content—liner notes, lyrics, artwork, music VR videos etc—which is being updated all the time, giving the Album Deck the feeling of a “living” or dynamic vinyl.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK - Solo Exhibition
The V&A Museum invited Beatie Wolfe to hold a solo exhibition of her world’s first designs for music in the digital age, which range from a theatre in the palm of your hand, a wearable album jacket, an ‘anti-stream’ from the world’s quietest room and a Space beam from the Big Bang Horn. This exhibition was named as a must-see by BA’s High Life Magazine, Wallpaper Magazine, BBC World Service, FT Weekend Magazine, Forbes, Design Milk, Icon, Creative Review.
