The V&A have been putting on the most amazing exhibitions. I absolutely loved the recent Telling Tales exhibition and now they've completely blown me away with their current exhibition - DECODE Digital Design Sensations. After 6 years of educational training in textiles design and a further 4 years teaching, I have developed a little obsession with digital media. My specialist areas are Adobe Photoshop and illustrator, but recently I did try to self teach myself a little bit of Flash. I love the idea of pushing the idea of surface decoration further into something that interacts and engages more with the viewer, and this exhibition completely feeds my hunger for these contemporary ideas.
There was so much amazing work that it has taken me quite some time to compile the collected images. And even longer to edit out all the audio of me gasping and wittering on about how incredible it all is to my work colleague in the background of the video footage. I really haven't done it justice or documented the complete collection. IT IS AN EXHIBITION THAT REALLY MUST BE SEEN, and I am definitely going to revisit it.
The work that really took my breath away were...
This amazing piece was created by Sennep and Yoke, it allows the participant to blow away the the seeds on the digital image of the dandelion clock with a hairdryer. I find it so very exciting to see both technical wizardry and gorgeous aesthetics combined and complimenting each other gracefully to create a gorgeous finished product.
James Frost
This piece by Flight 404 was amazing, it the movement of the graphics responded to sound, the picture above the video shows how the graphics appears when it detects no sound.
This piece by Mehmet Atken was absolutely breath taking, it enabled the viewer to create splashes/explosions of colour on the canvas by interacting with the screen.
A brilliant piece by Random International the viewer stands infront of the frame whilst it scans in a temporary image of their face onto the white screen.
