Postmasters Gallery – This exhibit had the work of Eddo Stern. The gallery consisted of the inspiration from his online gaming experience. It depicts the relationship between online characters and the real people behind them. I was really intrigued to learn that two people who were enemies in an online game got so into it that they wanted to fight for real in the real world. The displays to depict these people were talking heads that were created from a collage of digital images that represented who they were.
Along with the talking heads rendered abstractly from images, there was a woman who was created to look realistic. It’s amazing to see how real a digital image can appear; apparently he didn’t have a model for the image, which I thought brought out his artistic talent. He was able to make her have a wide range of emotions and facial expressions, apparently she is supposed to be singing, but I couldn’t hear anything.
Though I wasn’t entirely blown away by the shadow puppets, I thought it was an interesting idea. I liked how he incorporated (comical) action figures such as Stephen Segal and Chuck Norris into the project. This added a level of familiarity and humor to see them in these forms.
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