Autodesk Gallery: Jason Medal-Katz recap of TEDGlobal

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, Autodesk is a TED partner and participates in conferences like TEDGlobal. Gallery Curator, Jason Medal-Katz, attended TEDGlobal and filed this report.

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We presented the Autodesk Gallery at TEDGlobal with exhibits in the main lobby area of the conference. Our exhibits showed a wide range of customer work including emerging fields that Autodesk is exploring. TED attendees commented that Autodesk is doing very cutting edge work.

We had six exhibits overall including two new installations:

• Bio-molecular Self-Assembly: This exhibit focuses on self-assembly principles found at the molecular level and how to apply the principles at much larger scales.
  
  
  Photo by Ryan Lash
  
  For more info, see a video from our collaborator, TED Senior Fellow, Skylar Tibbits. We provided self-assembly kits that attendees took home with them. They were a huge hit with a massive rush of people claiming their giveaways on the first day.

• Bio-computation and Next Generation Aerospace: This exhibit features work done in the Autodesk IDEA Studio last summer by David Benjamin and then continued with Airbus. He is researching the potential to use bacteria and computational design to create new structures that optimize transparency and structure.
  
  
  Photo by Ryan Lash
  
  Here's a video showing some of the work. Airbus, Autodesk, and David are exploring the potential to use these ideas on a next generation concept airplane.

Here's a YouTube video providing an overview of the exhibits:

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When I uploaded the video to YouTube, their video servers noticed that the video was a little shaky and offered to fix it, so I let the servers do their magic. The result is a little trippy. If you wish to see the original video, navigate this link with Internet Explorer:

Autodesk_Gallery_TED_Global_2012.mov

Thanks Jason.

Partnership is alive in the lab.