Act/React

For this blog I will be discussing Brian Knep's exhibit and Camille Utterback's. Both were similar in the way that the audience sort of made the art piece. Knep's just sort stayed the same until someone entered and moved around on the floor. It was the same with Utterback's, it didn't change a whole lot until someone stepped in front of it and moved around. I would say that the audience completes these works of art. It is somewhat started in the way that there is something there to start with-- there is a "pool" of greens and oranges until something came in contact with it in order to make it react; Utterback's required someone to move around and complete the work of art by adding lines and colors. Some of these art works remind me of what John McKinnon said in class about the art he presented. Some of the art he talked about worked as an illusion. They were made a certain way as to make you think or see it in a different way. The same works with these art pieces at act/react. They are created in a certain way that make you think you are creating the art, when in reality there has been a great deal of work put into it so that it will follow where you move. I also think in a certain way these exhibits relate to "Arrival of a Train" which McKinnon discussed. It is rumored that the audience got scared after watching that because it felt so real, as if the train was coming out of the screen at them. In these exhibits, you get this strange feeling as to how the screens know where you are moving or how you are moving. I think these two exhibits were different, however, because Knep's just moved with you and then refilled the space again back to normal. In Utterback's, it moved with you but it also created lines of color and designs.