"Pandora's Sound Box"

"Pandora's Sound Box" is an exhibit that features a wide variety of interactive multimedia that has showcased many artists and their talents. Inspired by the 1929 film which Hitler hated because of its suggestive content and material, Pandora's Box was thought of as being light years ahead of anything else in the art world at the time. Now a days, "Pandora's Sound Box" "deals with the identification of fearing contemporary society... as conveyed through the strong material presence of sound." "Pandora's Sound Box" features many artists including, but not limited to, Pierre Bismuth,Django Hernandez and Tanja Ostojic. Bismuth explores what art will look like in the future with his installation "The Bruce Nauman Project." Hernandez takes lamps and turns them upside down on top of record players that project presidential secrets from the lampshades. And Ostojic portrays a woman's existance in "Misplaced Woman."

As far as art goes, this is pretty tame but I can't really fathom how so many diverse topics can be put together into one show. I chose to write about it because it is so diverse and had an interesting story behind why this show was put together. There are some elements that deal with new media, but I like how the artists use some older technologies to incorporate their ideas into something that seems way more modern, like the upside down lampshades for example. I guess I gravitated toward this because it sounded interesting. The mix of new and old media blends well, especially in a day and age where "retro" is popular.