Lecture 1

   Prospective's Lectures       

           During the prospective '12 international festival for digital art, we gathered to watch the lecture of graduate presenters. Their art involved the relationship with digital representation. There were six presenters who all explained their background and their work in general. The six artists were Sophie Kahn, Liat Berdugo, Kian Peng Ong, Ann Bartges, Georgie Roxby Smith, and Javier Villegas.

Each of them have a very different perspective, which all caught my attention and seemed extremely interesting.

            My favorite presenter was Liat Berdugo, not only does she have a great sense of humor, her ideas were brilliant. She is from the Rhode Island school of design and she presented a work of electronics connected to food. It gave the viewer the idea that connected correctly with right wiring, food can control house-hold objects. For example, she set up an image of herself hitting meat and a turkey which looked like it was connected to the wii Nintendo. So every time she hit the meat, it would look like she was actually playing the game and that the meat was literally connected to the wii controller. In the gallery, her video was set up by a giant projector on a huge wall with sound that you could barely hear.

            Another one of my favorites was Javier Villegas. Even though I could barely understand him during the lecture, I am pretty sure I got the gist of his work. In the gallery, he had a television with his moving images. They were trees and whenever a person would walk in front of the little camera attached to it, the trees would move and form into your image. Imagine a reflection of yourself but in tree form. It's really cool and interesting. By far my favorite to interact with and probably the only one that was really that intractable.

            Overall, the gallery was amazing to experience; a lot of fun. The lecture was very informative and interesting as well.