Shannon's Weblog

Had an interesting day last Saturday in San Francisco. The digital art show I planned to see turned out to be in a different city…I was misinformed and very confused for a few minutes, and then let down. However, we ended up at the YBCA gallery which had a show called “Dark Matters”. It’s a group exhibition that addresses our bombardment with massive amounts of information through media and online, and how we can’t be sure of fact or fallacy…but I’m too tired to think critically about anything now except some sleep. Oh, an installation called “Listening Post” was there, which is over 20+ ft long and made up of a grid of suspended LED’s that bits of online chat phrases are captured and run across the screens at different intervals. A synthesized voice and background sounds accompany it and it is absolutely phenomenal and mesmerizing. Now every time someone walks past me chatting on their cell phone and I catch some of what they are saying I think of that installation…like a song you can’t get out of your head.