Informative art: ideas to improve quality of life New exhibit at
Miller Gallery borders on future technology The new exhibit at
the Miller Gallery, 29 Chains to the Moon, curated by Andrea
Grover, is a bit surreal, but very interesting. Its name comes
from R. Buckminster Fuller’s book Nine Chains to the Moon, which
is, as stated by the Miller Gallery website, based on “his
radical proposal for improving the quality of life for all
humankind via progressive design and maximization of the world’s
finite resources.” The name of the book was derived from the
fact that if all the people of the world cooperated with each
other and stood on each other’s shoulders, then everyone could
form nine chains to the moon. With the increase in population
since then, the world can now, essentially, complete 29 chains
to the moon. The exhibit is spread out over an entire floor of
the gallery. One corner is called the Reading Room, complete
with a sofa and a couple chairs where patrons can take time to
digest the scene and read