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Lozano-Hemmer set up two projectors that create videos in passerby's shadows. It's a strange concept because when people in Trafalgar Square look down, they are greeted by an image of a person waving at them. The exhibit is set up so that the projected people look directly at a viewer, interact with them, and appear to lose interest as the viewer walks away.
Neato. And a lot less eerie than the exhbit I just saw in the Saatchi Gallery, where aged models of world leaders in electric wheelchairs roll around in the basement.
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* Example: I'm graduating with a Minor in Visual Art and a Liberal Arts Concentration in Political Science. Woooo.
Pictures from BBC, Three Cities and the Saatchi Gallery
1 comments:
Going along with the art+technology concept... there's an exhibit in London somewhere (this response will really lack details... but I will find them out for you... I have this info ripped out somewhere) that is a video installation using security cameras, shadows, etc. This is especially interesting since we are IN London where the ratio of CCTV cameras is 1 camera for every 7 people. Not only does it seem clear that the prevalence of surveillance fails to affect the quality of life of Londoners... but it seems that the general public can almost acknowledge this as an artform. They can see the good in something that we Americans wouldn't stand for (being recorded up to 300x day each)...
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