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What is 1964-1965 New Work World’s Fair

Chapter 14
Handbook of Research on Maximizing Cognitive Learning through Knowledge Visualization
Between April 22, 1964 and October 17, 1965 fifty-one million people visited the New York World’s Fair held at Flushing Meadow in Queens, New York, on the site of the 1939 World’s Fair. The Fair closed for the winter months. Thus it actually was open from April 22 to October 18, 1964 and in 1965 from April 21 to October 17, for grand total of 360 days. The fair featured 140 pavilions on 646 acres. Due to a stipulation that no nation can host a World’s Fair more than once a decade and that an official World’s Fair was held in Seattle in 1962, the New York Fair did not enjoy the official sanction of the Bureau of International Expositions. While several Communist Bloc and European nations boycotted the Fair due to its unofficial status, many Latin American and Pacific countries did host exhibits.
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Analyzing Disney's Early Exhibits as Installation Art Work
Jonathan Lillie (Loyola University Maryland, USA) and Michelle Jones-Lillie (Lillie Pad Studios, LLC, USA)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8142-2.ch014
Abstract
This chapter compares several Disney exhibits—particularly those narrativizing technological innovation—to immersive installation artwork in order to explore the importance of narrative and textual reference in creating powerful immersive installations as presentation of technological and scientific knowledge through multiple media. The narrative craft of exhibits such as the Ford Magic Skyway and GE Carousel of Progress, which Disney created for the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York, are compared to works within the genre of installation art, which has developed greatly since the 1960s. Similar to Disney, many artists have deployed immersive installation art exhibits to envelop audiences in a detailed aesthetic and conceptual narrative. Some educational institutions have also used experiential education installations, especially for teaching scientific concepts.
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Immersing People in Scientific Knowledge and Technological Innovation Through Disney's Use of Installation Art
Between April 22, 1964 and October 17, 1965 fifty-one million people visited the New York World’s Fair held at Flushing Meadow in Queens, New York, on the site of the 1939 World’s Fair. Due to a stipulation that no nation can host a World’s Fair more than once a decade and that an official World’s Fair was held in Seattle in 1962, the New York Fair did not enjoy the official sanction of the Bureau of International Expositions.
Published in Chapter: Immersing People in Scientific Knowledge and Technological Innovation Through Disney's Use of Installation Art; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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