Act React

When I visited the Milwaukee Art Museum Act/React Interactive Art exhibition I found it to be very entertaining and filled my mind with curiosity. Overall there were nine different pieces of artwork displayed throughout the exhibition. These pieces of artwork show its viewers that art does not need to just be still pictures, but can be interactive and made so it can be the audiences own artwork. There were two pieces that really interested and stood out to me the most.
The third piece in the exhibit that really interested me and caught my attention was the Snow Mirror by Daniel Rozin. Snow Mirror is a large projected image of what looks like a winter snowfall. When you first see the projection you are intrigued to get closer and examine the artwork. Once you step in range of the camera it projects your image onto the screen. The “snow” then forms your image and it then becomes clearer as you stay more still. It is a very large screen so you can move around in a lot of different ways and angles. As you move your image blurs and breaks apart, it then regroups as you start to stay motionless once again. It is almost as if you are the snow and can float around the screen and be blown by the wind as you move. It gives off an almost erie image but is very interesting to look at and interact with. The snowy image of a human portrays an image like one you would see in a fictional movie.
The fourth piece of artwork is just outside the Snow Mirror piece, it is called Peg Mirror by the same artist who created Snow Mirror. Peg Mirror is a very complex piece and is probably the most interesting of all the interactive art pieces in my eyes. It is made out of six hundred and fifty circular wooden circular pegs which are cut at a specific angle. At first glance it just looks like a bunch of pegs made into a circle on the wall. Once you walk into the camera's view of the wooden circle, the circular pegs start to turn. As the pegs turn they form many different shadows which imitates your silhouette onto the wood circle. This piece is less interactive because you can't do as much with it as the other pieces, but is still very interesting to view and experience. It is amazing how Daniel Rozin was able to make each peg turn differently to create an image according to where the viewer was standing and how they were moving. If you go up close it is as if each peg has a mind of its own and is actually a living thing. This piece must of took much time and a lot of precise work to complete, but overall it was well worth the effort.
Overall I thought this exhibition was a fantastic experience. I loved every second of it was amazed at all the different things I discovered and was able to take part of. I think it's great that someone first thought of creating interactive artwork. I think it's a good way to get people interested, make people entertained, and have an overall good experience. I would strongly recommend seeing this art exhibit to anyone of any age group. I saw people there approximately ranging from ten to 75 years old. I even brought family and friends, and they were just as amazed as I was. I think the artwork was brilliant and I would love to see further advancements in this kind of art. It takes much intelligence and creativity to be able to create the software able to project all the different interactive images. I look forward to more interactive exhibitions that will be coming to the Milwaukee Art Museum.