Hudson’s Mesmerize Thoughts
This image combines the idea of a maze or solution with ecology, human creativity and sustainability, and plants and the environment.
Fuji Seen from Kanaya on the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Kanaya no Fuji), 1830-32, Katsushika Hokusai, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1. Thoughts on the immersive experience:
a.) Emotionally: I really liked the music involved in the experience and how creative and unique it was. I heard flutes, guitar, piano, electronic sounds, and many other instruments, which actually added to the feeling of openness with my emotional state.
b.) Intellectually: I loved the handmade aspects of the experience that felt anything but inorganic and robotic, which was extremely refreshing and reassuring to me. I was worried that these experiences would be pretty impersonal and not very artistic or use AI instead of real artists, but I think that there was a good balance at Mesmerize where they actually collaborated with local creatives like the crochet/yarn artist in the middle room. I would like to incorporate as much of these tactile and human-created art experiences in our exhibition.
c.) What was missing: I noticed that the technology side of the things at Mesmerize was fairly basic (which I don’t necessarily mind), but for our purposes I think we could work to merge the physical and digital worlds a bit more effectively.
2. Bringing the teams together:
a.) 3 words that bring the teams together: repair, gratefulness, & energy
b.) 3 images that synthesize the projects (to the left and under this text):
Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki (Poem by Sarumaru Dayu), 1835–36, Katsushika Hokusai, The Art Institute of Chicago