2nd art visit

The exhibition I visited was at the  Burchfield Penney Art Gallery in Buffalo and the exhibition I saw was by Steina. I had never heard of her before, but now I am aware of the type of art she creates. The theme of this exhibit was “Involving People in this Magic”. She used surveillance, engineering, physics and multi-media to show art made of extreme complexity and extreme beauty, which is paraphrasing what she herself said about it. The exhibit was in its own separated room, away from everything else. All the walls were white and the room was huge. There were various separations between the pieces, like cubicle-style walls set up. There was a constant soundtrack playing of eery, creepy music throughout the display. The architecture was open, yet so dark it was hard to see anything but what was displayed in front of you and I think that was the purpose.
The first work of art shown is called Mynd from 2002. It is a 6-channel projection displayed on 6 contigous, vertically oriented panels of wall. The video itself was various scenes from nature, like waterfalls, animals in slow motion, rocks falling, etc. I think this is a representation of raw life. It shows continuity, motion, and energy. I think the artist was trying to show how much raw beauty exists in nature, that we don’t necessarily need to “Create” the art in nature, but rather admire it.
The second piece of art was called Bent Scans, from 2002. It is a constantly moving and evolving video projection that appears to be computer generated (and it is). There were two projections going on 2 different adjacent walls. This honestly reminds me of those screen savers that pop up on computers or sometimes TVs when not in use. I am not really sure what she was trying to say with this creation, perhaps that there is so much variety in life and it all is happening simultaneously. The third piece of art was called Tokyo Four, from 2002 also. This installation had 4 projectors set up  on the same wall, projection various images that seemed to “swallow” into themselves, and turn into another image. The entire exhibit was animated by soundtracks that sounded incredibly creepy and eery, and it was upon seeing this part that I realized how perfectly the music actually fit with the display. This art piece honestly disturbed me. It reminded me of a horror movie. I think the artist’s resounding theme throughout the exhibit, and definitely with this 3rd piece, was that life is continouous and that media is part of that fast paced, ever-changing environment we live in.