SoundWaves

Went to the SoundWaves exhibit at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. Naturally I can’t link directly to the pieces I liked, since like all artists, they insist on using unlinkable Flash for their navigation. I especially liked:

• Jean-Pierre Gauthier – “Chants de travail”. Annoyingly they don’t have video of this. All of the horns etc. were powered by these crazy electronic “bellows” and the whole apparatus was motion activated. As the first person in the room I had the joy of triggering the beast.
• Celeste Boursier-Mougenot [damn French names] – “Untitled, 2001”. This was really amazing. Watch the video. Three kiddie pools full of china and glasses. The effect was really impressive. Her other piece was great too.

Also, I have to agree with the various folks who ripped on Apple for the first iPhone commercial. It is uncannily similar to Christian Marclay’s “Telephones”, which predates it by at least 10 years.

One day these damn artists are going to realize that random people taking photographs and writing about their work is a good thing so I don’t have to rely on crappy Flash interfaces to discuss their work.

tags: art

posted on: December 22, 2007