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David Hoffos' exhibition at MOCCA

The exhibition involves the usage of dark space/vision, mirrors, glass, TV, what I believe to be horrify/mysterious background music, and replica of a forest or village, etc. to recreate what is known as Scenes from the House Dream, yet due to a fact that I have no idea what else to mention, I’ll go with each work that I understand. The first one involves the moving of a blimp up and down accompanied by a television playing selective scenes of fireworks explosions reflected upon the glass that stood between the television and the blimp, as a result one would assume that the blimp is flying through the fireworks which I may interpret as a prototype for his other works came to my understanding much earlier. Then it was the second piece that lead to my understanding (sort of) of his work. It consists of a living room replica lit by the fireplace where a man interacts with the objects that exist within the room as projected through the television that lies behind and into the glass as if as if an actual man in motion existed within the replica through reflection under darkness. Now skipping over many works that holds a similar principle to the first and second piece, you would encounter what to believe a female figure sitting at a coffee table accompanied by books or coffee (which actually lead my first thought to an actually person in watch). Apparently it was a projection of an image or video (I can’t recall whether it was moving or not) or a piece of black cardboard divided into dimensions providing the illusion of 3D-ness.

Is the web REALLY DEAD???

The society has grown, and so should technology. The word that runs the world nowadays is speed (at least for PARTS of the world...no offence to other countries), in other words technology needs to be in sycn with our pace and the web isn't doing so, that is where apps come into place. It's a trend where we begin with post mail yet there's this GAP between the sender and the receiver. Same goes to newspaper and telegraph, the wait for the print, delivery, and translate no longer meets the requirement of the world. Then comes the telephone and television, where the people request FASTER ACCESS and BETTER CONNIVENCE and is now replaced with YouTube and text messages where the intended/specific information can be accessed anytime anywhere yet still tied to the need of web access (excluding sms). And it all comes down to today where apps runs our lives with out the need of the web, technology is finally in sync (for now) with our pace and not long before we require more. Therefore it is not us to blame, nor them, its just a part of the trend where the something JUST abit better replaces another inorder to meet our needs. And the web isn't dead, and so is television, phone, post mail (maybe telegraph but who still uses that), its just placed aside for now due to its inconvenience.