I am a MAD student at NCSU, had to write about IdEntity, thought I’d share the part of my reflection about your piece
I had another similar moment of discovery with a piece called Tunnel Vision by David Gruber and David M. Rieder. The piece was an animation on a digital screen accompanied by a poem by Mark Strand called “The Tunnel”. I related to this way of working, because I also like to work from poetry as inspiration, so I stopped to take a look. The poem was very interesting and communicated the fear and paranoia of a person in a house with an unknown man standing in their yard. As I was reading the poem, I looked over at the screen and saw myself in the window of the house on the screen! At first I didn’t believe what I had seen, because the image went away quickly, but as I waited, it returned, and confirmed that it was indeed me in the window! I was the person in the house afraid of the man in the yard! I stood with this piece for a while; enjoying this discovery. The gallery guide said that this was using fear of the other to express fear of technology, but since I am not at all afraid of technology, I disagreed with this. For me, it remained a potent and surprising expression of fear of the other. People are so much scarier than technology, after all.
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Cheryl Harrison on December 4, 2011 at 3:05 pm.
I am a MAD student at NCSU, had to write about IdEntity, thought I’d share the part of my reflection about your piece
I had another similar moment of discovery with a piece called Tunnel Vision by David Gruber and David M. Rieder. The piece was an animation on a digital screen accompanied by a poem by Mark Strand called “The Tunnel”. I related to this way of working, because I also like to work from poetry as inspiration, so I stopped to take a look. The poem was very interesting and communicated the fear and paranoia of a person in a house with an unknown man standing in their yard. As I was reading the poem, I looked over at the screen and saw myself in the window of the house on the screen! At first I didn’t believe what I had seen, because the image went away quickly, but as I waited, it returned, and confirmed that it was indeed me in the window! I was the person in the house afraid of the man in the yard! I stood with this piece for a while; enjoying this discovery. The gallery guide said that this was using fear of the other to express fear of technology, but since I am not at all afraid of technology, I disagreed with this. For me, it remained a potent and surprising expression of fear of the other. People are so much scarier than technology, after all.