NAMOC part I

Here's some more pictures from 'Synthetic Times':


This was titled the 'Beijing Accelerator' and it was a contraption you sit in and watch moving videos of Bejing streets, while spinning. It was fun to watch people do, but the line was too long to wait in to give it a spin....ha...ha.


This was a surreal room, the floor a fiberglass hill with 16 robotic legs, each of them subtly moving and twitching. It was eery the way they moved so slightly that it could be real, as opposed to a dramatic awkward gesture of a regular robot. Right before I was leaving the room, all of these legs began to lift up like the ones in the forefront of the photo. One by one their legs inflated and stretched out like that....all of their movements slow and seemingly deliberate.


This was a room of plastic curtain walls, a net ceiling, and a flying zepellin navigating around black punching bag shaped balloons floating at different heights. No idea what it means, but it was fun to walk around.


This was a big head that you could communicate with. You could ask questions of it using the keyboard and it would speak responses. One guy asked it 'Why did the chicken cross the road?' and he replied 'Because he was a robot.' When you ask it questions about his age he says it's confidential information. He told us he has two sisters. He was asked how he was bald and he replied it took a long time.



This was a wall installation that showed an image of the viewers being videotaped and displayed in ochre tones on the right. On the left was a blue screen showing one of the people in the crowd picked out at random, with a feeling assigned to it. I stood there until I was chosen. The word I got was 'captivated,' and it's funny because I really was...


I have no clue what this was, but the picture came out nice.


This is a poor, blurred image of a really cool theatrical piece. It was an arrangement of items that all looked like scraps of meaningless objects. They were mechanized and sort of interacted with one another. A lot of the show was in the cast shadows so it was like a shadow puppet show that you could watch the inter-workings of. There was music playing in accordance with the machine's movements. I dare say it was an emotional thing to watch. The 'characters' really appeared to have feeling and there was a moving climax that felt like their ultimate destruction.