Exhibition // Universal Everything & You

// Universal Everything & You // 

21st September 2013 - 7th February 2014

Today I headed out with a friend to check out the Universal Everything & You exhibition which is on at the Science Museum in Kensington, I didn't really know what to expect mainly because it wasn't  fashion orientated. I have to admit after seeing it I found it a really interesting mix of visual and auditory  stimiulation.

The show was made of two different pieces, one called presence was a four screen visual performance using dance and movement alongside graphics for wonderfully eerie dances. The other is a more interactive piece called 1000 hands, this asked the audience to become a part of the art drawing lines then displaying them as a part of the four screens of the middle of the room.

// Presence // 

// Video 1 // // Video 2 // // Video 3 //

Of course I couldn't see any of this and try grabbing photos and videos. If you want to see the videos then links for all three I recorded are above! Presence was a really interesting set of videos mainly because of how the graphics and the body worked together forming almost a digital costume, in a sense a kind of digital fashion. Digital Fashion, applying clothing/costume via computer to me is obviously an interesting idea which could be developed in a way to completely change how people think about design or explaining how garments would move or flow.

// 1000 Hands // 

// Video 1// // Video 2//

1000 Hands was the other half of the video experience, displaying like some magical undersea party with all different life forms dancing it was definitely interesting! Adding to the fun of it all was the fact it was an audience controlled idea, you're free to download the 1000 hands app and contribute to the project creating your own line lifeform. You can change its colour, complexity and energy which create any manor of shapes and form, once they're submitted watch them come to life as they join the other creations.

I could've happily sat for hours hypnotised by these amazing lightshows, watching them move and the changes between them all. With the exhibition there until February and it being free people you have no excuse not to go see this! It's fun but also interesting to see where design could be heading, especially in regards with new technology Presence and 1000 Hands deffinitely leave you thinking about them once you leave!