Event Two - Installation by Jane Mi

I had the opportunity to go to the Wight Gallery to see Jane Mi's installation.  Jane was being interviewed by a reporter so I got to listen to her perspective on a bunch of different questions regarding her installation. In some ways I thought she did a very good job answering all of the questions, but in others I felt that she became somewhat defensive which was understandable to me because she had probably spent an incredible amount of time prepping and planning to put it on display.  

 

In general, I thought this installation was the eppitomy of the class.  It was a blend of design, technology, and history.  On the left wall we see black and white photos of an observatory in Hawaii, and in the middle we see a moving projection of a penguin, and on the right we see a huge color photo of a beautiful iceberg.  The floor was made of a black rock of some sort and my favorite part of the installation was a moving projection on the floor of the ice movements of Antartica named Black Ice.  I believe this best represented the blend between technology and art which has been discussed throughout this class.



I wanted to relate this installation by Jane Mi back to my very first blog post about space in terms of art.  I thought that Antartica represented such an unknown and uninhabitable place, but through advances in technology we have been able to study and explore much of the continent.  Previously thought to be cold, inhabitable, and unimportant, we now know how relevant our ice sheets in the world are due to climate change.  This projection does a great job combining that advancement in technology and displays the artistic value through a moving projection displayed on the floor of Mi's installation.