To start off the semester we went to ‘This Hideous Replica’ exhibition which I thought to be cool and a good use of our time. It was interesting to see the different types of effect that ai had on these artworks. One of the works that resonated with me was the ‘solid gold nugget planted in false gold’ I thought this one was interesting because of the concept of how it’s a joke and how you can make different types of art funny. The whole concept of a real gold nugget being places in false gold just made me laugh out loud a bit. It responded to the overall theme and concept of the exhibition by showing that not everything we see is real and there are people that would do this today to make someone look like a fool and to get a laugh out of them. This artwork was sprawled out on a table with each photo of the nugget and different types of nuggets around the table in photographs with numbers on the back of them and a plaque written up next to the artwork explaining the piece in a joking way and how the piece came together from a particular story. The artwork was in an open area that looked a bit like a hallway yet had a lot of space to walk around the table so that I was able to see every angle.  The different types of material that were used were photographs on blocks and bigger photographs of the pinkie above the artwork. The blocks were all on top of one another to make it looked like it was carelessly placed there.

One of the other artworks I found interesting was the video that was on 3 different screens that I couldn’t get the name of. The artwork consisted of 3 huge screens with images and motion and words plastered on them using a gigantic projector system. There were 4 projectors being used for this exhibition. It used ai with some of the words on the screen and you could tell cause most of it didn’t make sense. It responded to the theme and focus of the exhibition because it felt like it was the main attraction, and everyone would stop and watch the full 15 minutes of it because it was so interesting and eye opening to see it with the different sound that were used it felt like your eyes were glued to it. The space that was used for this exhibition was the biggest out of the whole exhibition. It was in the most space and had an area that a group of people would be able to watch it.

Overall, I loved the exhibition, and I wouldn’t have normally gone if it wasn’t for a class and was interesting to hear how it all came together. I will be telling people to go here because it was very insightful.