commissioned by the arts council of princeton, the ACP donor wheel by joshua kirsch is a permanent sculpture which recognizes the institution’s donors. housed in the rotunda of the paul robeson center for the arts in princeton, new jersey, the motorized disk has about 2000 names which are loosely grouped by first letter of the donor’s last name. accompanying the sculpture is a control panel with buttons of each letter of the alphabet (excluding Q and X). when someone wants to find a particular name, they can push the corresponding first letter of the name on the panel. the wheel then turns and stops at the section displaying names with that requested letter, backlighting those names with LEDs to highlight them.
donor names
detail
control panel used to find names on the wheel
ACP Donor Wheel from Joshua Kirsch on Vimeo.
JOSHUA KIRSCH (3)
Oct 22, 2009
Oct 20, 2009PRODUCT LIBRARY
Nov 23, 2021
Nov 15, 2021
Nov 11, 2021
Nov 10, 2021
Boo! I had high hopes for this thing when I saw the pictures. I thought each ring rotated independently of each other and in different directions at different speeds to collect all names of the same first letter at the bottom. Then to watch the video and see the thing laboriously spin and stop and rock back and forth. Disappointing.