I went to see the light show, Ann suggested it would be helpful for my work as there was a water installation. I found the show really amazing, it was interactive and interest engaging. When we first walked in there was a giant light fountain, like a Chandler I was made by Leo Villareals, called Cylinder 2, It featured lights that moved and were controlled by a computer program. The result was endless shapes and patterns being created, some say that the movement represents meteor showers of a cloud of swarming fire flies. I like the idea that it could be relating to something natural, how through a completed artificial way he has captured nature. I think his art did look like fireflies how the lights gathered and moved as it one. The artist explains that "the sequencing has no beginning, middle or end" he likes this as he believes that then this makes people feel that "they don't feel like your watching for something you've missed. I like the fact that the sequence is never repeated one a certain pattern has played out you can never see it again. I think this is interesting as then everyone gets to see something different. I also like how it was placed in a room centrally, it drew peoples attention and allowed people to experience it as a whole by having to walk around it. I think tho if it was hung in a dark room on its own with out any other light source it would of made more of an impact, the glass tubes that held the light would of become almost invisible.
I also found David Batchlor's Magic hour to be a really interesting piece, it added mystery and curiosity He has arranges TV screens in to a shape with different unknown images displayed. The only thing you know about what is present on the screen is the color glow you can see around the edge. The effect is a kind of a multicolored halo. Batchelor wanted to represent the artificial light that is associated with a city. I also like the unintentional art of the way the wires are held and gathered behind the screens, they create loops and thick circles of pattern.
My favorite piece was Anthony McCall's, You and I, Horizontal(2005), it was art that you as the viewer could interact with. It made the art fun as you could manipulate the art and become part of it. It was amazing how as the pattern of light projected changed so did the audiences experience. The light created tunnels and walls that you could walk through and dunk under. I kept reaching out as if to touch the light, it looks so real. The patterns created where also really interesting, the room was filled with a fog, when this interacted with the light you could see swirls and pattern that would not of been able to experience with out the light.
The work by Olafur Eliasson i think is most helpful to my work. The work was an experimentation of light and perception. It distorted peoples view, disorientated them and made them question what they were seeing. He uses light to make it seem as if the art can freeze time, immobilize water. The splashes of water become hung in space, suspended in time. This is what i want to do with my work, i want it to communicate the ephemeral. I think it would be useful in my work to look in to using lights, and ways of experimenting with how lights can effect the work.
No comments:
Post a Comment