new media

360 degrees for all colors

the MoMA had an exhibit of Scandinavian artist, Olafur Eliasson, who works with light in lots of different ways and contexts. one of the most engaging was called '360° room for all colors' which had a changing variable display of colors along the walls of a large round room. as you move in very close to the screens along the walls you plunge into the color abyss, your peripheral vision disintegrates and all you see is color changing slowly from cools to warms -- like jetting through a cloud on some foreign planet.

about halfway through the video here see the piece in action. there are exhibits at MoMA and PS1 until June 30.