When I was reading Chapter 2, a few pieces of digital art really stood out for me. The first was Erwin Redl’s Shifting, Very Slowly is quite amazing because I like the idea of loosing sense of space and time. I was thinking a lot about what was stated in class, that we are prisoners to our senses. It makes you think of what other sensations and events are taking place all around us and we have no idea. The theory of other dimensions other than our own becomes believable when you think of the fact that we are at the mercy of our senses and I think Erwin Redl portrayed that very successfully.
The next piece that really stood out for me was Jim Campbell’s Hallucination, in which the viewer standing in front of a screen all of a sudden bursts into flames. A couple seconds later, a woman comes into the frame and shakes her head at the spectacle of the burning man. I think this piece is quite amazing because it is interactive and strange. The people burst into flames, which is weird enough then the woman that comes and shakes her head in disapproval is a little shocking. The idea of hallucinations is the core of the piece and I think that is very intriguing. I would like to hear what the artist has to say when explaining this piece.
The last piece that caught my eye was Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe’s No Ghost Just a Shell. This piece is shocking to me because her face looks so nice and yet her eyes are giant black holes. The saying that the eyes are the window to the soul rings true for this piece. You can tell no more about her other than she has a friendly face, other than that she is this sort of blank notion of a person without any clues as to who she really represents.
I think this chapter was exciting because it encountered the digital age of the interactivity of the digital art that lead to all the wonderful technologies we enjoy in today’s society.
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