A few brief moments preceding his lecture, Rafael Perret convinced me that he was about fill the hour ahead of us with personality. Forgive my bias of all this Swiss, but he more than made the home country proud. In fact, in addition to a personal warmth, he threw in elements of an artistic passion, and portfolio of intelligent and visionary art.
I most enjoyed how he reacted to space. In my own art, I am obsessed with the cleanliness and purity of negative space. I really enjoyed his piece on forming digital patterns. I have worked with simple patterns in photoshop, and wrestled (in vain) with bits of code myself. He found a way to make all these things flow together. I was impressed.
The Milton series was worth the wait. My love for sports games of all kinds has made me aware of motion capture since the early 2000s. To see it fused with art was truly a great experience. I also just enjoyed the way he took something that we normally wouldn't examine, a set of motion, and fused a series of stills into one fluid sculpture. This was one of the few conceptual pieces that I really enjoyed. Normally, concept art has cause reactions like "Oh, that's neat, and different." The difference this time was that I understood what was going into it, found similar things in my life, and was able to relate to it.
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