Antenna Design

Shrink Bench, 2005
Lenticular Print
24 x 30 inches
Edition of 3
Courtesy of Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York
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Industrial designers, Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger, have collaborated as Antenna Design for the last ten years. Much of their work is intended for use in the public realm, as in their designs of subway cars and ticketing machines for New York City, newspaper and information kiosks, and multimedia workspaces. When exhibiting in an art context, they try to make the technology in our lives meaningful and to find a new aesthetics of technologically mediated experiences. The works in “Pattern Recognition - Sidewalk Series” (of which, Shrink Bench is exhibited here) somewhat merge the two areas of their practice, in that they propose sidewalk interventions that give pedestrians alternate ways to perceive and interact with existing environments.

Antenna’s best known design projects have been for New York City’s transit system, JetBlue, Bloomberg LP and Verizon. Antenna has exhibited in New York at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, Artists Space, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and Creative Time’s “Art at the Anchorage,” as well as at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) and The Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois (Champaign, IL). Udagawa and Moeslinger work in New York City.