Talk to Me at MoMA

The pieces that really amused us when we visited Talk to Me at MoMA`s website were the following: The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions, by David McCandless; Kageo, by a team from Keio University; and Locals and Tourists, New York and London, by Eric Fisher.

The latter really stands out because of its graphical shape and its concept. It uses geotagging data from Flickr and Picasa to gather information from different areas frequented by locals and tourists on those two cities. It is a work of art to us since it is allying shape, value and meaning to make the viewer think. It communicates something, it is a graphical representation of those who cheerish New York and London. The work can be found at http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/objects/146200/.

The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions is a rather comical piece but still inquiring. By taking a simple idea (`Technology makes life easier`) and reverting it, this piece does what most works of art fail to do: making us rethink daily things and how it affects us and those who are around us. And that is why this piece is certainly a work of art for us. The work can be found in http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/objects/145523/.

The Eastern piece was certainly the most creative one, both in concept and in development. It is known, specially among artists, that whenever you paint something you are actually painting LIGHT. But if all there is to see artistically is beholded by the viewer, what happens to what lies beyond, in the darkness? More than that, for a little kid, the darkness is something endless, void. By, once again, taking what is common sense and reverting it, that`s what makes Kageo a true piece of art. This piece can be seen at http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/objects/146236/.