Thursday, October 23, 2008

3 Questions - Exchange and Interaction

1. In Christoph Buchel's "Untitled," what was the purpose of making the rooms lifesize in some ways while also creating them to be minature so that the viewer was made to get on hands and knees to experience the work. Furthermore, what exactly does "Untitled" strive to evoke from the viewer and what is the overall goal of this piece?

2. Angela Bulloch's "Macro-World" looks exquisite from the photographs in the book and though we cannot imply this from the photo, the space is said to be interactive, with the viewer triggering movement in a massive pixel patterned wallfront. I really enjoy the use of not only the room but as well the color pallete expressed in the pixelated wallfront. The cieling adds an interesting, highly abstacted projection of the pixels. Personally, I wonder what sort of technology she uses to:
A. create the pixelated wallfront
B. to implement the interactive elements in the space

3. Carsten Nicolai and Marko Peljhan - "Polar" is a monitor station that processes information from human interaction in the space. It's aesthetic is futuristic with a pale gray color scheme running throughout the seemingly varied rooms. Projections on the walls, floors and video flood through TV Monitors are the means for the human to process the data it creates by being in the space. Again, I am interested in the technology used to create such a space and I also would like to find out more information regarding the philosophical ideas motivating the space.

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