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Pipilotti Rist is an artist that I have admired since I first saw her video at school in Colombia, some 10 years ago. It was an embedded video in the floor and since then I’ve been one of her followers. I love her compromise with women and the voice she’s giving us. This is why I was speechless when I saw her exhibition. It was like a dream. The environment of the place was friendly, it calls on you to stay, lay down and close your eyes. The music was a six-minute loop of body sounds combined with electronics. The installation has 4 projectors that fill the three walls of the entrance of The Museum of Modern Art . In the middle is a round sofa that invites people to sit and interact with the piece from different points of view. The layering of the video is just incredible, pink, red, blue, flowers, worms, pigs, blood, are the perfect elements for a wonderful piece of art

Animation by Gloria Kim and Lina Maria Giraldo

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To do List

The making of to do list

http://itp.nyu.edu/~lx243/commlab_storyboard/

The medium is the message 

In this chapter he introduces the concept of Electronic technology and the 
difference between hot and cool medium. 

Electronic technologies are new concepts that are emerging constantly. The 
text introduces us to how these new ideas are in constant change, adjusting 
with a society’s overload of information. 
The author also mentions how this affects technology, senses, rations and 
patterns. In order to explain this, he quotes Professor J.U Nef “the total 
wars of our time have been the result of a series of intellectual mistakes”. 
The effect of electronically technology is at first anxiety, followed by 
alarm, resistance and exhaustion. 

I agree with the author, when he describes cotton and oil, like radio and 
tv, become fixed charges of the community.

The community depends on these means in order to organize and have social patterns and human senses. 
In the human senses, all media are extensions like tv video radio, computer, 
etc; this extension changes the perception of societies and their way of 
thinking. 

As I stated before, McLuhan identifies two types of media: hot media and 
cool media. It refers to the degree of participation. A good example of hot 
medium is the radio, which is also described as high definition medium . He 
describes speech as an example of cool medium of low definitions because so 
little is given and so much has to be filled in by the listener