Event 2/3: Jonathan Moore Solo Exhibit

Event 2/3
Event: Design Media Arts graduate solo show
Artist: Jonathan Moore
Location: Broad Arts, EDA
Date: 25 April 2017
Time: 5:00 - 7:00pm
I attended another solo exhibit put on by Jonathan Moore titled “Under Construct,” in which everything was built by the artist himself. The exhibit was an interactive take on the process of going through security at the airport in that the audience participants begin the exhibit in an extremely slow-moving line (not unlike in reality) to have their IDs checked by a stoic-faced TSA-like agent (dressed in uniform also created by the artist) who stares at the ID, stares at your face, stares back at the ID (and this continues for a while), and asks questions. After you get your ID checked, you walk under a metal detector, put your bag in a basket and send it through a scanner, get scanned by another agent with another metal detector, and get some arbitrary sticker placed on either your person or your bag. You are then sent into a dark box with a danger sign on it and sent out the other end (God forbid if you try to exit the box before the guard lets you go) to “participate” in a survey (note: you do NOT disagree with the agent about the quality of your “visit”).


This exhibit was incredibly interesting in that everything was hand-crafted. And while that may not seem like a big deal, it is if you take into consideration that the artist must have had to learn how to engineer working metal detectors from scratch and create a moving conveyor belt from scratch as well. The visual, tactile, and auditory senses were all appealed to with the buzzing of the machinery, the yelling of the agents, the brusqueness of the agents’ attitudes, and the background noise coming from a creation of speakers in the middle of the exhibit. Again, this exhibit is an apt representation of how art and science come together to create an interactive experience for an audience; and especially impressive is, again, the ability of the artist to mechanize his art in such a realistic and interactive experience. I think that’s the whole point of bringing art and science together - to create a more dynamic interactive experience than just looking at a picture or listening to a piece of music.


I would recommend my classmates to check this exhibit out just because of how realistic it becomes despite the fact that you go into it knowing that it’s just an art exhibit.


selfie of participation


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