LACMA Trip

 I really enjoyed my time at LACMA, although I've lived in LA for about five years now I had never been before. I found the floor with the "Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982" exhibit and was sucked in by the first piece I watched, METAVASARELY and An Empty Room. They were very different from the exhibit on the third floor I started out at which highlighted abstract art and work done by Picasso. These pieces had motion and had aspects that the viewer could interact with. 

Both of these pieces were made by artist Casey Reas out of respect to Victor Vasarely who envisioned them but during the 1960's it was too expensive of a project to be realized. METAVASARELY has an interactive component that can be accessed through this link. 

The piece pictured above is titled "Simulated Color Mosaic" by Hiroshi Kawano. This piece was interesting to me because he used probability to create each square of color and the result resembled a true expression of creativity such as a Piet Mondrian which similarly had many squares of varying color but not generated by a computer. 

I greatly enjoyed my time exploring this exhibit, each piece was very different but had a similar excitement around it due to it stemming from a time of innovation. I would definitely recommend this exhibit to others in this course, and beyond this exhibit, the entire museum and area around the museum were worth the visit.