"Bug Eye" - A low-tech interactive sculpture for children.
(The Staten Island Children's Museum NYC 1994)

For Pannucci, interactivity has become an indispensable ingredient in her sculpture. As in her projects with children, the sculpture involves creating a conceptual and structural framework where public interaction literally transforms the sculpture in a personal way. And as such, the work beckons the child to build on prior interactions and make new versions with each visit to the museum.

Pannucci sees her sculpture for children as "toys on a larger scale." "Bug-Eye" is meant to be "dressed and undressed" in a scenario something like the following: The children select from various patterns, colors and textures of magnetic-backed leg-coverings and then try to find how and where they fit onto the sculpture. They also may add small, op-art spinner disks and textural or jeweled, snap-on accessories which form another 3-D layer. The large, mono-eye has three disks with transparent color designs that can be changed (much like colored contact lenses) and illustrate the principle of transparent colors mixing with light.

Materials of sheet metal (legs), mirrored-plex (body), and transparent plexiglas (mono--eye), were chosen for functionality, durability, and to create a techno look to the "naked" sculptural form. Color, texture, and scale add the human element.