Hi, I want to talk about my favorite art pieces. Sorry, I didn’t bring any new technology today.
American artist Fred Sandbackwas a minimalist conceptual based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints.Sandback was born in Bronxville, New York.He majored in philosophy at Yale University (BA, 1966) before studying sculpture at Yale School of Art (MFA, 1969)
I met his works at Dia beacon museum last year before ITP, and it was so compelling to mesoon after I circulated among his pieces, the yarns.Let me tell you why I love his work.
This is what he saw a lot of possibilities after his first work.
He uses the most modest materials to transform the white cube of the gallery into an exploration of line, plane and volume.
Sandback’s work defines space by the simplest and most economical of means: acrylic yarn attached at fixed geometric points between the ceiling and the floor
, or the wall and the floor.
Thisinstallation would seem to be an enormous rectangle of glass leaning against a wall; another, mirrors suspended at precise angles to one another.
But, no, it’s less. Just the yarn and the space. Then as you approach andthen inhabit the space of the work, you realize it’s much more.
His yarnsculptures define edges of virtual shapes that ask the viewer's brain to perceive the rest of the form.
In that way his work can be considered visionary or imaginative, as well as minimal and literal.
Indeed Sandback was fond of installing "corner" pieces whose shadows assist with this form completion process. In describing his work he stated, "It's a consequence of wanting the volume of sculpture without the opaque mass that I have the lines." and "I did have a strong gut feeling from the beginning though, and that was wanting to be able to make sculpture that didn't have an inside.
This work was the most compelling, my favorite one.
I thought mirrors hanging. Angled this way and that, they seemed to reflect the walls, the floor, the lights, one another. It was a fleeting perception. His work is anything but mirrors. I actually bit surprised when my hands passedthorough my imaginary mirror.But so strong was the illusion of the work being somehow suspended, I had to see for myself that the line, the yarn, was indeed secured into the floor.
Most compelling was when I saw that people actually start to interact physically here. The sculptures present an optical illusion of boundaries, of planes cutting across space that look like they may not be crossed but in fact do not exist.
It is in that illusion that the theatricality of Sandback’s work lies. Using only the sparest of material he creates a vast, imposing presence.
I can describe his work creates user driven interactions with minimalist hardware
Sandback himself referred to his sculptures operating in pedestrian space, acknowledging both the viewer’s movement through a space and as something to be engaged actively.
This research reminds me my days in previous company.
When I entered the company, we always talk about slim and more slim.If you develop a phone, then make it slim. If you develop a camera phone, make it slim. If you success to develop full touch screen phone without keypad, the you have to make it most slim in the world.
After slim, it’s invisible. People make a joke, this is new design of iphone 5. But I think this is not a joke in near future.
Again, if this is your invisible frame to display and create user experience, what do you want to fill with?
Using nothing but ‘air and edges’ he magically alters our experience of the space and offers a unique spatial experience.For me, this is what I want to refer for future interface.
