I chose to talk about Jorge Orta and his work with Light projection and public installation for my artist response. Jorge Orta has been creating very new and innovative installation art forms ever since the 1970s. Some of his earlier pieces dealt a lot with video and mail art where he expressed his feelings towards the military regime at that time. He learned early on that his true passion for art came in the form of installation art presented to widescale audiences. This comes in many different shapes and sizes, but my favorite had to be his work with light works projection (which is very similar to what we are working on in class). His most famous piece in this form would have to be The Imprints of the Andes in which he used light to inscribe a cool pictoral language on to the Andes mountains.
I just think that this is one of the coolest forms of expression. The color scheme works so well and does a really good job at protruding the pictoral language images. The aesthetic of the clouds really adds to the picture as well. SO COOL!
For this particular work, I could not find a quote for an artist statement, but from what I got, this piece had to deal with finding a cool and creative way to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the continent being formed. He wanted to find the mountains that could best represent continent for all of its glory.
I found a separate artist statement from Orta talking about how essential an audience is to his work. He states that “the individual creative potential of people needs to be fully acknowledged. By recognizing this potential and harnessing it through our work, we aim to mobilize an increasingly wide audience in actively supporting and providing solutions to world problems, whether they are ecological, political, humanitarian, or economic.”