Power of Pop - CODAworx

Power of Pop

Client: The Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture

Location: Tulsa, OK, United States

Completion date: 2022

Project Team

Artistic Director

Joseph O'Connell

Creative Machines

Design & Fabrication firm

Creative Machines

Creative Machines

Overview

Power of Pop is located in the Oklahoma Historical Society’s new museum, OKPOP, that shares the state’s pop culture artifacts and collections. The sculpture draws its inspiration and color palette from comic books and concert posters. Thousands of handmade glass spheres evoke the superimposed ink dots that the Ben-Day printing process employed to create color images in vintage comic books. The overall shape is a multi-directional crossroads of culture suspended in the atrium where it is visible from outside the building and from many points within. Computer-controlled LED lighting within the glass spheres creates animated sequences of light moving through the sculpture and radiating outwards like explosions of pop culture.

Goals

Power of Pop is located in the Oklahoma Historical Society's new museum, OKPOP, that shares the state’s pop culture artifacts and collections.

Additional Information

22’2” Wide x 23’10” High