moon birds

original work by Amber Lee

"Volume": Art turns interactive

Hello, friends. I'm back in London...ready to start round two. Check out this amazing installation temporarily located at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is made up of a series of poles that give off light and sound, which are triggered when viewers move amongst the poles. Each pole gives off a different sound, so as you move among the poles you experience different sensations. One of my friends said that each pole triggered different kinds of memories for her. The Victoria and Albert Museum displays some of the oldest collections in Britain, so it is refreshing, I think, for viewers to encounter this contemporary work of art in the midst of all the Romanesque Sculptures and Renaissance painting. Viewers go crazy over the installation, specifically large groups of young children. It is a field trip, for sure. I think such interactive works are becoming more and more familiar in the art world, as viewers seek an authentic experience, rather than looking at something two-dimensional and from a distance. Someone once told me, people want to know they exist; I think works like "volume" remind us of such things.

For more information on the installation, see:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/contemporary/volume/index.html