Google Web Lab was a cross discipline exhibition, held at the Science Museum. I found the atmosphere of this exhibition very exciting, and I could see how it brought out children in adults. At the entrance you have to go up to a tiny machine which gives you a card at the press of a button, each card is different with colourful geometric shapes on it. This card is provided in order to operate the instruments and other interactive objects at the exhibition. As a viewer I felt really involved in the show, and wanted to try all the different innovations Google has offered us. I thought it was great the way people on the other side of the world were being filmed or were controlling some of the interactive objects via internet. It was great to see art being mixed with technology and science, and people being excited about scientific and technological experiments.
One of my favourite pieces was the musical machine, where you could produce music by connecting various coloured dots on the screen, each dot represented and instrument that was boxed in a see through container in front of you.
Overall I thought this exhibition was a great success, very inspirational and fun.
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I am a current student at University of East London, studying Graphic Design and Printmaking. Art has been my passion ever since I discovered a pencil. I can’t place myself to a specific genre but if I absolutely had to it would be somewhere in between Graphic Design and Illustration. As a young artist I am still trying to define my style of work, so far I would describe it as accurate and delicate. I like to take great care of each piece and make sure it is produced to high quality or else it is not worth exposing to the world, I am definitely a perfectionist when it comes to my own work. Living in digital age it is hard to ignore all the amazing software, however I believe that handmade pieces are so much more valuable and precious compared to digital. It takes great determination to producing a handmade piece, making unintentional mistakes part of the work often leads to uniqueness, such work cannot be re produced which makes it very admirable. I guess I try to re bell against all the brand new techniques on purpose, because I like spending time on solving problems that could be corrected in no time on computer software. I get my inspiration from quite literally everywhere
Thursday
Google - Web Lab
Posted by Julia Baranova at 2:12 PM