Selling Tiny Ideas

ZHIJUN (KELLY) XU

Project Description

Selling Tiny Ideas is an ongoing study that explores the possibilities within transforming the prototype-like projects of artists into sellable products. The research will record and investigate the process that a project goes through from developing the prototype to market research and conceptualize the procedure for emerging artists. The investigation takes into consideration the physical transformation of the object as well as the business perspectives of a common product. With each project that is released into the world, new approaches to merchandising will be acquired, adding more pertinent information to the small but existing database. Specifically, the study will investigate interactive artworks as a catalyst for inspiration, but the knowledge acquired can pertain to artists of other categories. The creative outcome, Selling Tiny Ideas will be presented as a series of sellable products inspired by three different student-created interactive art installation projects.