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Perspectives in the Crowd (Exhibition of Daft Punk @ Coachella 2006)
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| dollaroff |
To get me in the mood for tonight, I hit up this exhibition on the Westside.
It was entertaining to see all of the different people recording the show last year. One of the things I thought was interesting was the amount of people that zoomed to 6x digital; when their footage was blown up on the wall of the gallery, it was pretty incomprensiable. However, it may have looked quite different while the person was taping it at the show through their camera.
It's free, so if you have some time to see it in before it closes, go and do so.
Website (scroll to bottom)
Some info:
The Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the exhibition:
Perspectives in the Crowd
June 20-August 29, 2007 in the Bolsky Gallery
Location: Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles , CA 90045
Parking & Admission: Free. Visitor parking in structure on La Tijera.
Hours: Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm / Thu, 10am-7pm. Closed Mondays and major holidays
How do websites like YouTube alter our perception of a single event? How do we navigate our world when we know that any situation can be captured, uploaded and saved on the internet? What does it mean to be an active spectator today? What does it mean to have so many people filming the same performance?
I couldn't find contact information for the artist (Tucker Neel) to give him my thanks. |
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| Cool1g |
| i got an email from those guys to use my footage too but i forgot to sign the rights release on it so they didn't use it...had forgotted about the show. curious to see how it turns out... |
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| dollaroff |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cool1g
i got an email from those guys to use my footage too but i forgot to sign the rights release on it so they didn't use it...had forgotted about the show. curious to see how it turns out... |
It definately was an art exhibition (i.e. if you just want to see the show, get the video that's floating around the Interwebs).
One of the questions he presented was: "What happens to the moments between people that aren't captured on video?"
To me, those moments (if they were memorable) would still remembered by the fans that attended the show, and couldn't be duplicated by people just watching the footage. There is still no substitute for being at a show and experiencing it first hand, however, this fan footage gives an additional amount of connectivity to people that were there. |
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