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Aug. 31st, 2006 01:58 amI've taken a liking to Rockstar: Supernova.
Aug. 31st, 2006
"New Media Art"
Aug. 31st, 2006 03:37 pmI'm interested in hearing about art installations that involve computers that you have actually found interesting. Every time I see one of these "new media" installations, I find that they are little more than glorified slideshows or PowerPoint presentations. Because the user clicks on the "Next" button does not make an exhibit interactive!
The only exhibit that I can think of that was really hands on and worth its label was Istvan Kantor's exhibit adjacent his Lebensraum/Lifespace screening at the Art Gallery of York University. When you got on top of it you could see footage on three different projected screens of some stuff around you but you couldn't quite figure it out. Then you would physically go down a slide, and when you got at the bottom, the footage made sense: the exhibit captured your slide with three different cameras and kept looping it on the screens at various speeds. There was also some footage of Kantor's sexmachinegroup of people involved in some sort of "cyborg-orgy" of sorts being looped as well. The fun part came where at the bottom of the slide, in the pit there, there were three filing cabinets. By opening and closing the drawers, you could control the speed of the footage being looped on the three screens, so you could accelerate a screen and slow down another. There was also some intense industrial music being looped. It's not much less gimmicky than most other "interactive" displays, but because it was immersive, a whole body experience that involved manipulating footage of the viewer, it actually worked. It was quite awesome.
The only exhibit that I can think of that was really hands on and worth its label was Istvan Kantor's exhibit adjacent his Lebensraum/Lifespace screening at the Art Gallery of York University. When you got on top of it you could see footage on three different projected screens of some stuff around you but you couldn't quite figure it out. Then you would physically go down a slide, and when you got at the bottom, the footage made sense: the exhibit captured your slide with three different cameras and kept looping it on the screens at various speeds. There was also some footage of Kantor's sexmachinegroup of people involved in some sort of "cyborg-orgy" of sorts being looped as well. The fun part came where at the bottom of the slide, in the pit there, there were three filing cabinets. By opening and closing the drawers, you could control the speed of the footage being looped on the three screens, so you could accelerate a screen and slow down another. There was also some intense industrial music being looped. It's not much less gimmicky than most other "interactive" displays, but because it was immersive, a whole body experience that involved manipulating footage of the viewer, it actually worked. It was quite awesome.