wunderkammen

i was too tired to pipe in much at this point in the conversation last night, but to my knowledge the original cabinets of curiosities were called "wunderkammen" - something i learned through a kiki smith exhibit a few years ago through her creation of her own personal wunderkammen, which was quite visually arresting. google is sort of failing me at the moment - i'm not coming up with much - but please add to the list of links if you find anything. obviously for the phase #1 showing this won't be so elaborate - but i imagine this could be quite awesome in the future.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/26/HOLAU35EJ.DTL&hw=glasses&sn=099&sc=114

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities

http://cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/pg/stein.html