Diane Willow

I enjoyed the presentation by the visiting artist Diane Willow. I really liked how she was using very advanced technology to create her pieces. She would use motion sensors to follow the visitors in her installations, touch sensitive technology to activate certain machinery in others, and she even raised her own bio-luminescent plankton and set it's schedule to the opposite of normal; this way visitors in the day could see the plankton illuminate on their natural clock which is typically at night. I also liked the metal rocking chair type sculpture, in which it was a large metal spiral, with two seats that sat next to each other, but with the person's heads sitting on opposite ends, so they could carry a conversation if they so chose. Her work wasn't primarily of a sort that was easily relatable to what we do in our class, but she did go over some of her process that I think we were all able to relate to in some way. Sometimes she had an idea that was thought up before construction, and sometimes she had the material she wanted to use, and the project was born out of that. Overall it was an enjoyable presentation.