Rose Bond explores the possibilities of using space, by rejecting the gallery and instead using urban settings to exhibit her images. “Intra Muros” is an installation where animated silhouettes are projected from within the building onto the windows and are viewable from the outside. What interested me the most about the artist’s description of the work was that it isn’t about going to the movie theater or the self contained experience of watching a movie at home, on television or on a computer, but it becomes more of a public spectacle. Anyone walking on the streets can look on and capture a glimpse of the animations play out and it gives it more of a voyeuristic quality. Personal rituals are played out through these silhouettes in the frame of the un-shuttered windows, creating a connection between the piece and the viewer. It feels much more personal like your sharing the experience with one of these characters being animated, rather than watching it in a theater where you’re sharing the experience with a group of people in a contained setting. By animating them from inside the building onto windows, your still sharing the experience with people however everyone’s experience with the animations are different, and that’s what I like most about this piece.
In Bill Viola’s installation “Five Angels for the Millennium 2001” a large dark room filled with ambient noise which is accompanied by five large scale projections. The noise accompanying each animation is meant to convey certain moods and emotions to the viewer as he’s standing in this dark room. Each of the images appears watery and shows a man falling through or leaping out of the fluid depths. The titles for each projection are “Departing,” “Birth,” “Fire,” “Ascending,” and “Creation,” and these names fit the moods of the images. What I like most about this installation is just the scale of it. The viewer is brought into this huge room, where he is engulfed by these large bright colorful images and ambient noise accompanying them. I can’t help but feel this would create almost an emotional connection between the piece and the viewer. Sound and images after all can be subjective and when faced with something on that scale the viewer can’t help but project his own personality and emotions to the images seen.
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ReplyDeleteRose Bond explores the possibilities of using space, by rejecting the gallery and instead using urban settings to exhibit her images. “Intra Muros” is an installation where animated silhouettes are projected from within the building onto the windows and are viewable from the outside. What interested me the most about the artist’s description of the work was that it isn’t about going to the movie theater or the self contained experience of watching a movie at home, on television or on a computer, but it becomes more of a public spectacle. Anyone walking on the streets can look on and capture a glimpse of the animations play out and it gives it more of a voyeuristic quality. Personal rituals are played out through these silhouettes in the frame of the un-shuttered windows, creating a connection between the piece and the viewer. It feels much more personal like your sharing the experience with one of these characters being animated, rather than watching it in a theater where you’re sharing the experience with a group of people in a contained setting. By animating them from inside the building onto windows, your still sharing the experience with people however everyone’s experience with the animations are different, and that’s what I like most about this piece.
ReplyDeleteIn Bill Viola’s installation “Five Angels for the Millennium 2001” a large dark room filled with ambient noise which is accompanied by five large scale projections. The noise accompanying each animation is meant to convey certain moods and emotions to the viewer as he’s standing in this dark room. Each of the images appears watery and shows a man falling through or leaping out of the fluid depths. The titles for each projection are “Departing,” “Birth,” “Fire,” “Ascending,” and “Creation,” and these names fit the moods of the images. What I like most about this installation is just the scale of it. The viewer is brought into this huge room, where he is engulfed by these large bright colorful images and ambient noise accompanying them. I can’t help but feel this would create almost an emotional connection between the piece and the viewer. Sound and images after all can be subjective and when faced with something on that scale the viewer can’t help but project his own personality and emotions to the images seen.