![]() ![]() Construction: Stoker and Allaire, Monterey, California, USA.Electric contractors: Leavenworth Electric, Monterey, California, USA.Video animation: Ian Williamson, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Booth Plumbing, Monterey, California, USA Interactive fabrication: Chris Poehlman, California, USA.The exhibition features 10 species of living jellies in display tanks as large as 3,700 gallons. Jellies: Living Art is a 450-square-meters special exhibition. By reaching out to visitors on this affective, aesthetic level, reinforced with conservation messages about threats to jelly habitats, we sought to build a connection that would translate into support for preservation of the habitats jellies need to survive. (Content was not so imporant they just wanted to "be" with the jellies.) Jellies: Living Art chose to celebrate the beauty of living jellies and the ways in which jellies and the marine environment have kindled artistic imagination across time and around the world. ![]() Some (35%) wanted only an aesthetic experience. A huge number of visitors (97%) wanted some type of aesthetic experience in a new jellies exhibit. Living displays are not designed to mimic wild habitats, but to emphasize the beauty of the animals.īased on interviews with more than 300 visitors about their experiences in the Aquarium's permanent jellies gallery, Jellies: Living Art took a radically different approach. The walls are painted in rich tones, decorative moldings cap all of the walls, and ornate faux-painted gilt frames surround every live exhibit, the interactives and the three videos that introduce the concept areas. The galleries include a walk-through swarm of living jellies, a wall of Lava-Lamps, music, poetry and decorative lighting effects. Beside and around the large-scale live displays are art and installations by Dale Chihuly, David Hockney, Ernst Haeckel, Pegan Brooke, Cork Marcheschi and others. The visual architecture in Jellies supports the theme of the exhibit, evoking the look and feel of a classical museum gallery rather than a traditional aquarium. The exhibition explores the ways in which jellies and the marine environment have inspired artists. The jellies are displayed beside more than 40 works of fine art created from 1865 to the present, and a number of thought-provoking video and interactive displays. Some are local species from the Monterey region the rest are temperate and tropical species from around the world. Several species have never been exhibited before. Jellies: Living Art is a 5,000-square-foot special exhibition that explores the aesthetic qualities of aquatic creatures through live exhibits, works of art, video and interactive displays. The exhibit also intended to surprise and inspire the curiosity and interest of the general public in the connection of art and living animals. The mission of the Monterey Bay Aquarium is to inspire conservation of the oceans, through the connecting of visitors with sea life through direct experience with living animals. ![]() 2003 Significant Achievement Exhibit Award from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association.2003 Excellence in Exhibition from the American Association of Museums.
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