09 Mar 2010, Posted by admin in The Fam,Thoughts, No Comments. Tagged art, design, london

Digital Dreams

London might be the most expensive city to live in next to Tokyo, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any recession gems to be found amongst all the Ferraris, mink coats and bottles of Bollinger. South Kensington, one of London’s most expensive spots wasn’t our first thought either for a cheap day out, but South Ken also houses a stack of quality museums featuring most importantly free admission and small exhibit fees.

After paying a meager £4.50 for a student discount ticket (it never gets old!) we ventured into the dark tunnel that is Decode at the Victoria & Albert museum. The V & A isn’t the first choice for an exhibition in digital art, it doesn’t quite fit in with the classical sculptures or Catholic art work, but I guess that’s the point, its a juxtaposition, a mish-mash of two worlds.

This was our first exposure to the growing realm of digital art and we loved every second of it. Many of the exhibits were simply not static pieces or looped videos, they were live, real-time images. One of the most interesting was a graphical representation of live Twitter feeds, truly the future of interactive, digital art.

From running through a reactive field of electronic lights that would follow you as a moved, to an interactive display that would scatter dandelion seeds with the use of a hairdryer, the pieces simply weren’t there to be gawped at, they were there to touched, manipulated and played around with.

Decode is on till the 11th of April. Our only criticism? There wasn’t enough of it.