I was lucky enought to attend the opening of the recent electronic media show this past Thursday. Going in, I wasnt sure what to expect, but I actually ended up loving it! I had no idea you could do so much within the field.
The works that stood out to me the most were those by Mr. Doob [Ricardo Cabella]. His HTML5 piece was really striking because what is on the screen is something you definately DONT want to see on your own comupter screen, a frozen dragging screen implying a virus. it was realy fun to play with though without the attachment of your own home computer to it and it made me really think about how he hacked the screen to do only this. Another piece of his titled, WaterType, was true to it's description, "I garuntee you'll be entertained for at least 15 seconds". I was. again, the screen function was very simple and in this way elegant, even though it deminished the quality of the computers of today by reverting to substandard programming.
versatility was shows with the sound pieces, the guitar with marbles that amplified the sounds, and the staircase microphones, which im not sure what they were for but seemed like a cool concept. but my favorite of all time was the genius piece by Bon Champion, "Conversation: A Collaborative Drawing". This really showed to me the power of the interactive piece, because all the viewers lefdt their own mark and self portrait of how they felt while observing this piece. so simple, yet so brilliant! i love love loved it!
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