Moma Review

Since i was not able to go to the Moma Show, “Design and the Plastic Mind”, i went to the website and took a peak at the online exhibition tour in which I found quite interesting…   What caught my attention was “Smell +” under Sensory Design that explains how people can be attracted to one another by pheromones.  This experiment is a couple divided by a wall connected only by tubes that are attached to their noses, armpit and sexual organs. Each person has different smells and diverse olfactory stimulations which can lead to match individuals according to their odor formula.

Ps. Online there are fifty extra works that are not shown in the exhibition at Moma.

MOMA show

I went to see the MOMA show Design and the Elastic Mind, I found it overall quite a good show, although I did feel that as the MOMA tends to do they lumped art and design together based on something random in this case technology.  My favorite pieces were Troika piece titled Newton Virus, in which a virus is inserted into a laptop and it causes the Mac user’s interface to fall down and be subjected to Newton’s theory of gravity.  It’s almost a one liner but it’s funny so it gets away with a lot in my book.  On the other hand I felt Simon Haldane Lightweeds was more of a commentary how we experience nature these days and how little of it is real. Lightweeds is a living piece of art they grow indoors but rely on the sun and rain in the real world to do so.  I also enjoyed Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin it’s an animated piece which documents the flight pattern for domestic flights in a 24-hour span.

Experiment for Final Project

Hey all,

I was playing around with ideas for my final project (which will hopefully turn out to be an audio composition consisting of samples from the geotagged sounds on freesound.org), and I thought I’d share the product of today’s work.  It’s far from what I want my final project to sound like, but it’s a start!

The samples I used for this mix came from Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and I think there might be one sample from South America.  Enjoy listening to the whole world all at the same time!

Collage One

Show opening

If anyone happens to be in Bloomington, IN this summer I’m in a group show at the Kinsey Institute.

Sonia Andrade – video artist

This is a video of Sonia Andrade’s work. This is her showing in Rio de Janeiro Brazil at Galeria Tempo.    

The Most Wanted Paintings

Komar & Melamid: The Most Wanted Paintings

http://www.diacenter.org/km/painting.html

http://www.diacenter.org/km/index.html