NYC Museum of Sex/Entropy8Zuper

Next time I’m in New York after September 23, I plan on checking out the new New York City Museum of Sex on 5th Ave at 27th St. If the museum is half as much fun as its exhibition website, “1001 Nights in Manhattan“, it should be a pretty good ride.

The Flash-based 1001 Nights site is a map of Manhattan, enhanced with the sounds of the city and with pop-up annotations to some of the more notable and notorious places related to New York’s sex history. But the coolest feature is that the map is also a bulletin board, allowing visitors to enter their own annotations to memorable NYC sexual memories.

It’s a great idea for a site, and a terrific realization of the idea– so its no surprise that it comes from Entropy8Zuper. They’ve been doing net art for years, participating in the SFMOMA’s 010101 show with a wild artwork called Eden Garden 1.1, which reads a website, converting the text and html commands into rabbits, robots, Adam, Eve and lots of bunnies. You have to see it for yourself. (You can just drag this link to your Links bar in IE to view whatever page you’re looking at in Eden.Garden.)

Be sure to check out the Heavenly Airport page to see some of e8z’s older work.