Echo: the Poetry of Dreams

As I was walking through the busy Flatiron district the other day, a giant otherworldly sculpture of a girl’s head caught my eyes. Jaume Plensa is the artist behind this this great art work.  Its elongated Modigliani-esque features oddly recalls a hologram.  Mr Pensa has for years dreamed of an “art totale”, he said, that would meld the contradictory disciplines of photography and sculpture.

Interactive Art at MOMA

When I was recently visiting MOMA‘s current exhibition “Talk to me”, I fell upon a beautiful and hypnotic moving image on a giant screen. A sign invites you to download the multiplayer game “Tentacles” on your iphone in order to start moving a squid-like form into the bottom of an imaginary ocean.  As more players join the game and interact, the giant screen turn into an amazing piece of “living art”…