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NOTCOT.ORG: Step inside 'Momentum,' installation from United Visual Artists (UVA) at Barbican Centre, London. Void of darkness, filled with 12 illuminated pendulums swinging rhythmically from the sky, time and physical space feels distorted.
I'm not very impressed by this installation. I don't want to judge it to hard because I haven't been to it in real life and I'm sure that a video doesn't do the piece justice. At the same time I wasn't very impressed by what I have seen of this piece. The big idea behind the project is something that sounds cool to me, but the actual space that they have created is a little lack luster. I think that some extra color or texture could provide enough variety to keep me interested for more than a few seconds. I do like some of the elements of this project. The machines that they use to move the lights are very interesting and I would love to know more about that.
I very much appreciate the sense of spatial disorientation – and to a sense, isolation – I imagine I would feel while experiencing Momentum by United Visual Artists. I especially like that the lights’ movements swing in the ‘natural’ rhythm of a pendulum, but then transition to more robotic positioning. Would I be at first lulled by a sense of security, and then suddenly feel as if I were being monitored? Watching/listening to the video with headphones give some sense of the spatiality of the sound, but nothing close to the type of immersion one might feel in person. This project seems like something that Wood Street Galleries would exhibit.
This looks like an interesting installation but I feel like I would get bored with it fairly quickly. I like the concept and I think the technology used to mimic the pendulum type motion is interesting, but it seems like visually, there is not a whole lot more to experience. Maybe its just so reliant on the aural experience that couldnt come across in the video? I also kind of didnt like the way they presented it in the video itself. They were like describing it in very vague artsy terms for like the entire first half, and I was just like, I want to know what this is!
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I'm not very impressed by this installation. I don't want to judge it to hard because I haven't been to it in real life and I'm sure that a video doesn't do the piece justice. At the same time I wasn't very impressed by what I have seen of this piece. The big idea behind the project is something that sounds cool to me, but the actual space that they have created is a little lack luster. I think that some extra color or texture could provide enough variety to keep me interested for more than a few seconds. I do like some of the elements of this project. The machines that they use to move the lights are very interesting and I would love to know more about that.
I very much appreciate the sense of spatial disorientation – and to a sense, isolation – I imagine I would feel while experiencing Momentum by United Visual Artists. I especially like that the lights’ movements swing in the ‘natural’ rhythm of a pendulum, but then transition to more robotic positioning. Would I be at first lulled by a sense of security, and then suddenly feel as if I were being monitored? Watching/listening to the video with headphones give some sense of the spatiality of the sound, but nothing close to the type of immersion one might feel in person. This project seems like something that Wood Street Galleries would exhibit.
This looks like an interesting installation but I feel like I would get bored with it fairly quickly. I like the concept and I think the technology used to mimic the pendulum type motion is interesting, but it seems like visually, there is not a whole lot more to experience. Maybe its just so reliant on the aural experience that couldnt come across in the video? I also kind of didnt like the way they presented it in the video itself. They were like describing it in very vague artsy terms for like the entire first half, and I was just like, I want to know what this is!
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