An exhibit called "Art/React: Interactive Installation Art" is making its world premiere at the Milwaukee Art Museum through January 11, 2009. This exhibit features pieces that allow viewers to move through a space and create art.
For example, the museum's signature piece will probably be a piece called "Healing Pool" by Brian Knep. As visitors walk across the piece, the orange, red, and yellow shapes transform behind them. Knep said, "[This piece] is about the scarring that happens through the healing of a wound, as well as aging and growing through change. At any point, the floor will reflect everyone who has walked across it."
Other pieces include "Echo Evolution" which uses ultrasonic scanners to find people moving and then creates the sounds of things spinning such as quarters or wine glasses with the help of changing neon lights. "Peg Mirror" is 650 circular wooden pieces that mimics the movements of viewers.
This exhibit marks the first time that viewers at the Museum create art just by walking through it instead of by using keyboards and mouses.
The guest curator Geoge Fifield said, "Previously, art has always had to be passive. You look at a painting, you listen to music, you read a book and you experience it but ... you're merely receiving it, and with interactive art you are actually doing it. You are changing the path you are traveling through and in many ways, as you can see here, you are changing the artwork itself."
I think this new interactive art will be great for the art world. Not only is it a new, exciting type of art, but interactive art also adds an emotional element to technology.
As Knep, the artist behind "Healing Pool" said, "it's exciting to try to make technology less soulless and isolating."
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