This past weekend I visited London for the OneDotZero_Adventures in Motion Festival, we travelled up on the friday morning and arrived in Southbank late afternoon in time for a showing of some processing pieces in a small screen studio in the BFI, I found that this work was pretty amazing, considering the experiences I have had making relatively simple stuff using processing that these digital artists could create really cool looking pieces of art using the same medium.
Below is a short video I took of one of the clips.
On the friday we also looked at an audio installation using multiple microphones and speakers to create a cool effect when put through specifically designed software which delayed the transmission of some sounds and repeated others…
On the saturday we headed to the Tate where I found that I was not impressed by a large amount of the ‘artwork’ being displayed, it appeared as if most of it could have been done by a child and that all that was need to justify this was reasoning behind the ‘art’. There were obviously stunning pieces of artwork that must have required enormous amounts of skill to create, but on the most part I found I was getting frustrated by the rediculously simple artifacts that were left in glass containers and called modern art…
There were a couple of video pieces I found particularly irritating however, one was a video of a tramp kicking a bin down the street and the other was of some rubbish being blown about in the wind.
I found these annoying because there is no reason to waste space in a popular ART gallery with this when there are truly talented artists out their who struggle to get their work shown effectively!
But I am going off on a tangent here and getting into the dangerous territory of the question ‘What is art?!’
Below are a few pictures from the trip the the Tate.
Below is a photograph of one of the pieces that particularly irritated me because of what the piece actually looks like (feces strewn across the floor) HOW IS THIS ART?! …
After leaving the Tate gallery we returned to the BFI, we took a look around the exhibits we hadn’t had a chance to look at on Friday night, there was an app on shown called Granimator which looked quite interesting but my favorite exhibit was a lighting piece using small lightbulbs and small mirrors pieced together into a hanging row of 6 which switched on and off in different sequences creating a very cool effect on the floor and walls of the dark room in which the exhibit was located.
Mirror lighting exhibit:
Our final stop was a large cinema in the BFI in which a future cities film was shown, I have added a trailer of these clips.
All in all the weekend was very impressive however I was fairly disappointed with the size of the onedotzero ‘festival’ as it consisted of a couple of exhibits and 3 theaters when I was more expecting a larger event type layout such as E3 (the video games show).
