Face to Face
One of the good things about yesterday was visiting the Newcastle Region Art Gallery in Laman St (the library's next door, sit it's a good location). In particular they have an exhibition called Face to Face, which is there until 26th October.
This is a collection of 11 works of different type and presentation. They varied from the passé Heroes (two models posing to an old Bowie tune?) to the intriguing time and motion study. I was fascinated how it built up images of the viewers from discrete positions in time. The whole thing exists in a 3D environment and you can scroll through this to see the whole thing (see image at right). There's a facsimile of movement here, but what really got me was how distant overlays seemed to merge to become clear images of the self.
Much like memory perhaps?
I had to laugh at the Prosthetic Head by Stelarc. The viewer can interface with it via a keyboard and it moves and responds in an AI way, very similar to chat bots and the like. I can remember testing out an open-source program a few years back that presented a 3D head in various poses and expressions. Seems "old hat" after things like Second Life, but here it's ART (why? because Stelarc put it in a gallery). It also has a few biographical facts about its creator, but just don't ask it to sing!