12-1 Blog entry

Sensitivity is a work by the artist Stanza. It was found on the furtherfield website. This project aims to, as Stanza puts it, 'These artworks represent the movement of people, pollution in the air, the vibrations and sounds of buildings. They are in effect emergent social sculptures visualizing the emotional state of the city.' The point of Stanza's work is to monitor the change of these things over time and depict them in art. These works help to show the "identity, feelings and personality" of the city itself. This is not seen just on a physical aspect by artists but also on a sort of spiritual aspect as well. the psychology of the city is documented in these works. This is very interesting to me for the fact that it takes sensors around a city in different areas and makes the data into emotions for the city. When looking at a single piece of the artwork collection one may just thing oh... there are dots and circles and a light picture of the city.... so what? However after hearing the story behind it one starts to see changes in each picture as well as the sensors and how each city seems to have its own unique aspect to it.