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LAURIE SIMMONS AND PETER WHEELWRIGHT

THE KALEIDOSCOPE (...BIGGER) HOUSE

DMINTI, in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA), is thrilled to unveil Laurie Simmons’ and Peter Wheelwright’s The Kaleidoscope (…Bigger) House, an immersive public installation. Simmons and Wheelwright bring their iconic Kaleidoscope House to life in a fresh, innovative form as a participatory sculpture with AI-driven features, situated in the heart of Miami’s Design District. The interactive installation will be on view from December 3rd through March 31st at 3930 NE 2nd Avenue.

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Originally created as a 1:12 scale modernist dollhouse, produced by Bozart Toys in 2001 and sold at the MoMA Design Shop this innovative "creative play environment" showcased a contemporary design with mid-century-inspired rooflines outfitted with modern furniture and decor by renowned contributors such as Dakota Jackson, Karim Rashid, Ron Arad, Jonathan Adler, and with art by Carroll Dunham (Simmons’ husband and Wheelwright’s college roommate), Cindy Sherman, Peter Halley and Mel Kendrick. Its layout included a great room with a fireplace, an open-concept kitchen, a dining area, a living room, a bathroom, and two bedrooms with lofts accessible via ladders. With its suggestions of class and style, the house suggests leisure and the economic structures of the contemporary home.

Receive your own unique digital collectible from “The Kaleidoscope (….Bigger) House”.
Laurie Simmons explains "Peter Wheelwright and I are thrilled to revisit our plan to build a life-size version of The Kaleidoscope House. Updates to Peter’s design, which was intended for Union Square in New York, combine our original full-scale house with a dynamic generation of images. Visitors to the house will receive various AI generated portraits in the Kaleidoscope House rooms, based on my 2001 series of photographs. These images, delivered to smart phones, give viewers a chance to imagine what life inside a Kaleidoscope House space might look like. The AI component of the project connects it to my recent painting and film projects, particularly the Deep Photos/Kaleidoscope House (2024) sculptures on view at ICA Miami." Visitors can claim their own digital collectible minted on the Tezos blockchain.
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In collaboration with DMINTI, ICA Miami worked with Simmons and Wheelwright to create The Kaleidoscope (…Bigger) House, an immersive public installation.
Over the last decade, Simmons has continually engaged with technology, including artificial intelligence. The reimagined Kaleidoscope House is an interactive space that invites the public to engage directly with Simmons’ photographic visionary world. Using AI-driven features and interactive photographic triggers, visitors step inside the installation and leave with a personalized digital keepsake that bridges art and technology.

“The Kaleidoscope (…Bigger) House”
December 3, 2024 through March 31, 2025
3930 NE 2nd Avenue
Monday-Saturday, 11:00am-7:00pm, Sunday 12:00–6:00 pm

“Laurie Simmons is a key voice in the history and development of technology and identity in contemporary art, a thought leader whose work profoundly resonates today,” says Alex Gartenfeld, ICA Miami’s Irma and Norman Braman Artistic Director. “ICA Miami is proud to work alongside DMINTI to commission this significant new interactive and new-media work by Simmons with Peter Wheelwright, building upon an important work by the artist in ICA Miami’s collection. Our collaborations with DMINTI reflect a shared commitment to advancing innovation in contemporary art and ICA Miami’s ongoing engagement with new media practices.”
LAURIE SIMMONS
Laurie Simmons is an internationally recognized artist. Since the mid-70s, Simmons has created images with intensely psychological subtexts and nonlinear narratives through photography, painting and sculpture. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; the Hara Museum in Tokyo; and the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, among others. In 2018-2019 Simmons’s retrospective Big Camera/Little Camera was presented at The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 2006 she produced and directed her first film, The Music of Regret, starring Meryl Streep, Adam Guettel and the Alvin Ailey 2 Dancers. The film premiered at The Museum of Modern Art. Her feature film MY ART premiered at the 73rd Venice Film Festival and Tribeca Film festival in 2017. Simmons lives and works in New York and Connecticut.
PETER WHEELWRIGHT
Peter Wheelwright is an architect, educator and writer who has collaborated with Laurie Simmons on a number of architecture and design projects over the course of their 50+ year friendship. Formerly the Chair of the School of Architecture at Parsons School of Design/The New School in New York City, his architecture work has been published widely in both the national and international press. Currently, he is a Professor Emeritus at Parsons/The New School as well as an award-winning novelist of Literary Fiction. His novel As It Is On Earth received a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention Award for Literary Excellence in Debut Fiction, and his novel The Door-Man was recognized by The New Yorker as "One of the Best Books of 2022."
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