Bodies Exhibition
This whole exhibition was a display of real bodies, some were cut open to show internal organs and other such pieces while others were in poses… but all were skinned! We saw displays of the arteries and veins of the whole body. There was a display showing healthy persons lungs compared to smokers lungs… quite disturbing… There was a bodies preserved in the position of people doing sports, this was interesting as it showed the muscles of the body in use
The most disturbing part of this exhibition was the section which showed the stages of a foetus from 1 week on… not the nicest thing ever… overall I didn’t enjoy this exhibition, yes it was something I wanted to see but I wouldn’t go see it again. I felt the need for a tour guide as we just glanced at everything but most of it made no sense. Bit of an anticlimax but at least I can say I saw it…
Hugh Lane Gallery
This gallery holds a collection of modern and contemporary Irish and International art. And that’s pretty much it… I could call it an interesting trip but I think shocking would better portray this place. Most of the paintings were plain boring canvases with single colours which were ridiculously priced… a small violet canvas was on sale for €15,000 and a large canvas with a few rectangular colours was on sale for €1.6 million… a bit crazy… And even if you bought the works of “art” you couldn’t have them for another 5 years. We had a bit of fun with one of the security guards and that was the best of it, wouldn’t be number 1 on my list of places to visit but we all have our opinions…
Trinity College Dublin
Our third and last trip was to the science exhibition at Trinity College Dublin. The exhibition was called “Lightwave: Defy The Darkness”. We had a tour guide to show us around and he explained what everything was and how it worked, nobody was left behind pondering about what anything did… we moved on when everyone saw and understood the work. The first thing we saw was “The Orb”. It was a flat disc standing vertically on a powerful motor; the edges of the disc were lined with L.E.D’s. When the device starts up it begins spinning at great speed, it begins to form an orb shape. The lights activate using precise maths and timing and the image of the earth appears. This was brilliant…my sorta thing.., the image ran for a few seconds and then began displaying news articles and weather conditions from around the world, although it looks cool, eventually it just wrecks your eyes!!! We then moved on to other things like a torch which made shapes on a large screen depending on where the user directed it. We were taken to a room which had 5 rows of orange siren lights, which reacted to movement in the room and shone in the direction of it. There was another device which monitored and informed you about the size and location of all seismic activity happening in the world. Next we saw how electricity can be generated from soil. A bacterium is put into the soil and a reaction causes electricity! We were also brought into a big silver dome where LED’s were in bundles on the roof and a number of bean-bags were placed in the dome. The walls of the dome were lined with a silver foil…when the lights were switched on it created a spectacular light show. Overall I loved this exhibition. It was great to see other people’s innovative skills in creating these works. It linked in to Creative Digital Media because it showed how people were thinking “outside the box” in showing us science….
