Recorders...

Many pieces of work that are exhibited in the recorders exhibition require you to use the space around them. For example, 'Pulse Room' requires the long room to present the outcome of each person heart rate reading, as the reading is moved from one end of the room to the other as each heart rate is taken. The piece 'Please Empty Your Pockets' relates to the use of space around it, as it requires man kind to start and one end of it and then move down to the other end. This piece would not have worked if it had been displayed in the corner of the room.

The work re the references the human body as it plays on the five senses, none of the work presented would be classed as art without the presence of a person. For example, 'Please Empty your Pockets' requires humans to engage with the conveyor belt and use their possessions to create the artistic outcome, 'Microphones' requires the voice of a human to create a sound, 'Pulse Index' requires the human fingerprint and displays it in the television set on the wall, 'Autopoiesis' is the most simplistic of all the pieces as it works with the human reflection alone, Close Up' works with a photograph of a persona and presents in it in a mosaic on the television set on the wall, it also displays the persons pulse at the bottom of the screen, 'Pulse Room' uses the human heartbeat to create a glimmering light throughout the room made up of all the heartbeats that have been taken throughout the day, '33 Questions Per Minute' was a personal favourite of mine I felt the use of questioning the mind and portraying it as art. When the room has no people inside all the work will fall back into its non artistic category.

The exhibition suggests humans relate to technology better when they are connected with it. The fact that all Lozano-Hemmer's work needs human interference suggests humans and technology are closely related and work well together. If you look at society in present day, a persons life revolves around technology and technology is a man made thing, so their relationship is a very close one.

I found the work very inspiring art work that expresses the connection between man kind annd technology. I liked the fact that works meaning wasn't very obvious, you had to spend time with the work and interact with it to figure out what its meanign was.