This is when code really is poetry. I recently visited the Decode Exhibition at the V&A – December 8 – April 11. This is a must visit exhibition.
I am becoming increasingly interested in the image-making and technology. Not just the static photograph but how we manipulate our surroundings to engage in experience created by technology. What is even more exciting is when this moves into the realm of art and ultimately mainstream experiences.
Although not entirely dead, we are moving away more and more from the producer/consumer paradigm and increasingly into producer/consumer/producer roles. This throws into disarray a lot about how we percieve experiences, we are no longer passive in them and we can either create or manipulate with the use of free and open source technologies.
Why was this exhibition so much fun? Watching it through the eyes of a child. Everything for my son is new – he just plays, no barriers, no questions, no expectations, just simply – play. So, even though I work with these kind of technologies, I know conceptually how they are made, and they may have been technologies around for a while, the simplicity of play makes it so much fun.
The teenies for me are going to be defined by interactions. The blending of gaming, interaction, experience and design. This kind of work which is being produced with so much more frequency than before and even what was produced over the last 5 years was certainly not mainstream or in an exhibition at the V&A. This makes for an exciting couple of years ahead I think.
I so wish I had the luxury of time to learn how to code and create but also play in this space.
A brief rundown of my highlights from the show without spoiling it:
Video Grid 2009 by Ross Phillips – even more impressive when I realised he was the technical director at ShowStudio. Much respect!
Griffin Video Wall 2009
Oasis 2008–9 by Everywhere
It almost beats ShowStudio exhibition at Somerset House which I talked about here I’d recommend both highly. Actually they are same-same but different.
Go see!!!
Tags: digital, exhbition, open processing, tangible interaction
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