Working contemporaneously to such continental Op artists as Victor Vasarely and Julio Le Parc, Riley was included in the landmark exhibition «The Responsive Eye» at MoMA in 1965, which emphasised
the active role of the viewer and the potential slipperiness of seemingly objective geometric forms.
Not exact matches
While The Artist's presentation requires an
active role of imaginative transformation on our part, the hi - tech
of Harry Potter and Hugo mechanizes («automaton - izes») the process and places the
viewer in the more passive — if over-stimulated ---
role of receptor.
The floating cube responds to unique visitor interaction: although the audience plays the
role of an
active observer, the
viewer's relationship to the physical space is called into question.
The results provoke the
viewer to engage in an
active participatory
role, as the gaze conflates the static physicality
of the canvas with the natural saccadic movement
of vision.
In creating these ever - shifting points
of view, Braman asks the
viewer to take an
active part in creating meaning: the exhibition's title, Yours, connotes an offering or a salutation, but also alludes to the
viewer's
role in the work.
Since the scenes are so deliberately ambiguous, the
viewer plays a much more
active role in determining the meaning
of the piece.
Also incorporating performance, «BLISS (REALITY CHECK)» (2017) by Donna Huanca (b. 1980) is an elaborate installation comprised
of a tableaux vivant
of props, painterly elements and actors, designed to suspend the
viewer between the
role of a passive onlooker and an
active performer.