By
Thomas Connelly
Last
night I Went to the opening night of Sound to Light - Crossing
Borders (STL). As well as the exhibition, which runs until June 23 at
the Salamanca Arts Centre, I saw some audio/visual performances.
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| Image courtesy of www.soundtolight.net |
STL
is described as a dynamic, playful, chaotic, experimental project. A
social art project that seeks to transcend boundaries between
disciplines, but more importantly - and something that can only be
done at this time in history - seeks to transcend physical location.
This could not have been done before the invention of high-speed
networking. Like the ancient shamans who could be in two places at
once, nowadays artists are able to perform
bi-location. Optical fibre being part of the infrastructure of modern
shamanistic practice the name of the exhibit takes on a special
meaning.
