exhibit — Michele Hratko Design

Designing a temporary interactive exhibit for a local Pittsburgh artist.

I designed a museum exhibit featuring the work of an artist in the Carnegie Museum of Art. The exhibit meant to act as a temporary pop up to draw people to the full art museum. I chose to feature the piece Fever Field by photographer Melissa Catanese. The exhibit includes tech-mediated interactions facilitated by sensors and projection mapping.

Exhibition Design, Interaction Design, & Spatial Environments

Time: November - December 2024, 4 weeks
Role: Sole designer
Tools: Rhino, Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Procreate

Context

Fever Field is a collection of photographs of poppies taken in the spring of 2021, during a period of record California droughts and devastation from the Covid-19 pandemic. “The creation of this work, combining her own photographs with anonymous ones, is an expression of personal and collective grief, an act of remembrance, and a symbol of resilience for an uncertain future to come.” (Catanese)

Visitor Flow

Entrance

Artist Intro

Artwork

Memory Field Interaction

Artwork and Memory Field

Exit

Interactions

Memory Field User Flow

Process

1. Storyboarding

2. Prototyping

3. Gifs

Full process here!

Contact

Updated June 2025