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Holland Performing Arts Center

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Holland Performing Arts Center | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The Holland Performing Arts Center, located right next to Omaha’s Old Market District and Gene Leahy Mall, was opened in October 2005. The design of the center was inspired by The Musikverein in Vienna, the home to the Vienna Philharmonic, featuring the 2,000-seat Peter Kiewit Concert Hall and 400-seat Suzanne & Walter Scott Recital Hall.   The Holland Performing...

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Piano Staircase & The Fun Theory Award

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Piano Staircase project was an example for The Fun Theory Award, an initiative of Volkswagen. The award recognizes “thoughts, ideas and inventions that help prove the fun theory. That fun is the easiest way to change people’s behavior for the better.” This particular project was realized in Odenplan, Stockholm with the aim to get “more people to choose the stairs by making it fun to do.” The experiment resulted in...

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The Cave of Robot Bats

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Memphis Airport Parking Garage | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Making field-recording in the underground parking garage of Memphis International Airport was a somewhat conspicuous activity. In addition to numerous cars swinging back and forth like hungry sharks hunting for a spot to park and flocking crowd passing through with “huh?” expression on their faces, I felt emotionally naked as my mind was oddly colonized by acoustic ecologist Gordon...

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