Decode - London V&A
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- Hombre_Lobo
Anyone see the exhibition?
http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/…I was pleasantly surprised despite the arguably overdone 'dynamic generative' ideas behind it. Some big names/agencies there too - John Meada, Universal Everything, Daniel Brown, Golan Levin and some loser called josh davis.
Some great work there.
- zr0
Yep there was some nice stuff, not a huge amount - though I was barely in there for half an hour
- Hombre_Lobo0
http://www.qbn.com/topics/621903…
SON OF A BITCH
i pressed publish and simultaneously felt monospaced, utopian and airey scream FILTER!!!!!
apologies, ill get my coat.
- straightola0
My girlfriend has been working on the promotion of this, I thought this was pretty tepidly curated exhibition. It seems they went in with the purpose of making interactive/generative art seem like a really stern, stuffy practice when in fact some of the best examples are those that have a playful angle. Don't get me wrong, I love the academic side of work from guys like Ryoji Ikeda, I just think it was a bit over-dry given that its supposed to appeal to new groups of people. Also it has quite a few pieces presented so small it looked like a parade of screensavers in dixons. Computer art needs scale to make it feel like youve done something other than spent a lunchbreak on youtube or looking at the train timetable. Drew Hemment put together a much better survey of this kind of work at sonar 3 years ago
- must_dash0
Wasn't it Drew Peacock?
- bekannt0
i was there but it was sold out... no more tickets...
- i saw you coming and bought the last 20Hombre_Lobo
- nnahhhh...no way ....i had fun anyway with the skater dudes at the nokia push thing....bekannt
- Hombre_Lobo0
@straightola
lol, thats exactly what i said to mate about some of the crapper generative art stuff - "its like a bunch of shitty windows screen savers".and id agree some of the works (about 6) being displayed on 20" LCD's was a rather poor effort.