dec 26, 2016 - New Museum
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Some of my long distance friends visited New York and we visited Pipilotti Rist's Pixel Forest exhibit and it was the most visual pleasing, interactive, and unique exhibits I've ever seen. Luckily the sky view room was opened this day, so my friends and I got some great pictures of the skyline. According to the New Museum Exhibit description, "“Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest” is the most comprehensive presentation of Rist’s work in New York to date. It includes work spanning the artist’s entire career, from her early single-channel videos of the 1980s, which explore the representation of the female body in popular culture, to her recent expansive video installations, which transform architectural spaces into massive dreamlike environments enhanced by hypnotic musical scores. Featuring a new installation created specifically for this presentation, the exhibition also reveals connections between the development of Rist’s art and the evolution of contemporary technologies. Ranging from the television monitor to the cinema screen, and from the intimacy of the smartphone to the communal experience of immersive images and soundscapes, this survey charts the ways in which Rist’s work fuses the biological with the electronic in the ecstasy of communication." (https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/pipilotti-rist-pixel-forest). When attending this exhibit, there was three floors to view her installations. My favorite being the first floor "Pixel Forest" which was the most visual pleasing and attracted many people. There was pixel crystals hanging from the ceiling changing in a range of colors from warm tones to cool tones. The lights would dim to a low color to then a bright white. It would occasionally, blink and do an ombre effect. There was bean bag pillows on the floor so you can lay down and see the instillation, and there was sounds playing which reminded me of the sea.
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