Client: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Project: Country Dog Gentlemen Kiosk and Website

Inspiration

With some of the 20th century’s greatest artists as inspiration, Night Kitchen Interactive created an engaging kiosk installation and website, bringing to life the works of  Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Frida Kahlo and others. These stories and activities excite and inform young museum visitors, inspiring them to contribute their own creative responses to the museum’s website.

Narration

Performance artist Sebastienne Mundheim collaborated with Night Kitchen to craft the voices of two colorful canine characters from Roy De Forest’s work. With the dogs as guides, modeling behaviors of inquiry, this journey through modern masterpieces is reflective, whimsical, and insightful.

Design

Roy De Forest’s colorful work acted as an aesthetic springboard, paving the way for vivid, lively animations. Each animated story reflects an individual artist’s unique approach, creating six different extraordinary worlds to be explored.

Interaction

Targeting children aged 6-10, a rare audience for modern art, this interactive experience engages younger museum visitors and their families with six playful activities. Each reinforces key learning points associated with an individual work and encourages visitors to share their own creative responses in a visitor-contributed gallery on SFMOMA’s website.