Sensorium: Part II
Flying Carpet
February 8-April 8, 2007
Right now there are several great reasons to take a trip down Mass. Ave to MIT and the List Visual Arts Center (Weisner Building, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge).
http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/programs/index.html
Sensorium: Part II features six works by contemporary artists questioning and exploring the ways in which technology has shifted our ways of interacting (with the world and each other) through our senses. Click on exhibitions on the link above for a fairly complete description of each installation, the artists and curators-- but with just still photos it’s hard to do the exhibition justice. I found the entire show profoundly thought provoking and delighted in finding some unexpected humor…
Mathieu Briand, Ubiq, a Mental Odyssey, 2006
Photo courtesy of the artist
Briand’s piece (based on 2001: A Space Odyssey – shown above) comes with a pair of headsets that enabled my husband and I to view the exhibit through each other’s eyes. Cool, huh?
Flying Carpet- (just across the lobby from Sensorium) is an interactive video installation that “will allow visitors to be able to communicate with visitors at the Bethlehem International Peace Center and Art School at the West Bank through the use of web cams and chat postings.” I guarantee you will identify with the answers to the question “where would you fly on a magic carpet?”
Each exhibit is highly worthwhile and if you have even a small amount of time I recommend you go. It’s basically free (they have a donation box…) and the hours are posted on the website.
And click on the link to print out this map before you go:
http://web.mit.edu/lvac/www/collections/map.html
It’s MIT’s public art collection! Amazing.
Carol
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