hey folks,
since you're the most consistently interesting and clued-up bunch of all
the arts-related mailing lists i'm on, could you recommend a discussion
list devoted to 'experience of space' kind of interactive installations?
i make them myself, sometimes, but i don't have any formal art training and
so i feel like i'm in a conceptual void when i try and talk about them to
other people, because i'm always a lot more interested in how they feel to
be in than what they might 'mean'. for example, i went for a bike ride
along a canal the other day, along a long straight stretch that had equally
spaced trees along both sides of the path for about 3 km constantly, and
got an idea for a piece that sensed how fast a cyclist was going and made a
pulse of light seem to travel up the path alongside them (using many
microcontrol'd LEDs), with a soundtrack to match (using many speakers), so
that if the cyclist slowed down the soundtrack would continue at the same
speed, along the path.
i don't know how to talk about this other than as an experience. i know
somehow that there's a lot of meanings that can be extracted from this, and
i know i'm trying to say something myself about the experience of cycling
at speed down long tunnels - but then i go and i see works that actually
get exhibited and often there's a whole lot more conceptual description to
them, but to my mind at least often a whole lot less interest in the actual
experience of the thing.
so, what i'm looking for really is a good place to lurk and observe, so i
can learn to write about my ideas in the right kind of way...
thanks in advance :-)
d
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