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12. In your opinion, what was the weakest work in the exhibition and
why?
I think all of them had qualities once you understood and there were pieces
where understand the background, the piece itself didn’t tell you too much
about it. The Japanese piece, even the CD player – to really get something from
the piece it took more than just walking through the exhibition, or even just
using it. The same with the pieces that were generated by recording 3D
movement - as pieces of furniture, it didn’t really work for me from a designer’s
point of view and the idea behind it – converting that into reality, I didn’t really
understand from the pieces. I thought it could have been done more to the
extreme showing the idea of what the pieces were about.
13. Were you surprised by any work in the show? Why?
A lot of things, but also details. To go back to the ideas from the recording 3D…I
think within this process, combining new and old technology I thought was very
clever. But a single piece…
[You’ve already said that there was nothing there which you weren’t already
aware of…]
It’s not that I knew everything already, but technology-wise I don’t think there
was something which went a step ahead of what I had seen before or knew of. It
was within a very ‘today’ kind of technology and using it for an exhibition for a
very good level.
14. Did you think the exhibition was coherent?
Yes.
15. How would you sum up the core theme of the exhibition?
If I describe what the exhibition is about to other people, I say it’s an exhibition
about technology in art and design and as a whole thing the exhibition was very
wide, but still within ring that would hold hem together.
16. What did you most like about the total exhibition?
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