Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Artist Talk #4

I attended a talk by artist Chris Coleman who uses technology and art to discuss issues and problems in the world that relate to society. My favorite of his worked was titled Collusion. The work was of a building emitting and taking back in the smoke it emitted into the air. The movement of the smoke was very similar to the way that a human being breaths but smoke from a building unlike what we breath pollutes the air causing some of use to have trouble breathing. Also the movement of the smoke was almost calming in the work and I was tempted to breath at the same tempo as the building,

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