During our cross country road trip this summer, Danny and I stopped in at the San Francisco MoMA. When we walked in, we were greeted with Jim Campbell's piece, Exploded Views. From below, the suspended light display seemed to shudder as black spirits moved through them. But when we went upstairs and looked at the piece head-on, we saw that the momentary black outs were in fact silhouettes of (digital) people passing by.
In this piece, Campbell remediates both film and sculpture, adding dimensions of depth, movement and light. I found it especially interesting how the piece held different meanings from different vantage points. The choreography and engineering involved in this piece are impressive. Video cannot capture the full effect of the work, as it is 3-D, but above is a small taste of the complexity of Exploded Views.
