{"id":1306,"date":"2015-02-19T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.alfred.edu\/iea\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:59:36","slug":"artist-in-residence-omer-and-tal-golan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/2015\/02\/19\/artist-in-residence-omer-and-tal-golan\/","title":{"rendered":"Omer and Tal Golan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;4&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text]The iea was delighted to have <a href=\"http:\/\/omta.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Omer and Tal Golan<\/a> as our visiting artists over the week of February 9th, 2014. The artist duo, currently residing in NYC, was founded in 2006 and specializes in the intersection of fine art and technology through highly visual presentations of interactive media. They are self-described autodidacts with no formal background in computer science and seek artistic expression of our humanity, our imagination, and achievements as human animals in science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>During their residency, Omer and Tal focused on producing an iteration of their interactive installation <a href=\"http:\/\/omta.co\/2015\/making-love-poetry-in-motion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Making Love: Poetry In Motion<\/em>,<\/a> ultimately holding an opening of the piece on February 13th. The piece is a living net artwork, that pulls tweets about love and compose an endless love poem in real-time, reacting to viewer presence and movements in the location the piece is installed in. By showing us streams of love tweets from the last few seconds, <em>Poetry In Motion<\/em> proves to us exactly how much love there is in the world every second. As an added twist, as the opening fell on Friday the 13th, the duo mixed scenes from horror movies and tragic love stories into the background of the live video of love tagged Tweets, with the occasional shriek and frightening scene reminding us that love can also be tragic.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some images of Omer and Tal&#8217;s piece:[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;5&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1306 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/MG_3634.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/MG_3634.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Omer and Tal preparing code for the piece\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1313\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1313'>\n\t\t\t\tOmer and Tal preparing code for the piece\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/04A0789.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/04A0789.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Presentation of &quot;Making Love: Poetry in Motion&quot;\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1308\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1308'>\n\t\t\t\tPresentation of &#8220;Making Love: Poetry in Motion&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/04A0793.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/04A0793.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/04A0808.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/04A0808.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Presentation of &quot;Making Love: Poetry in Motion&quot;\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1310\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1310'>\n\t\t\t\tPresentation of &#8220;Making Love: Poetry in Motion&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/04A0823.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/04A0823.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Omer (right) discussing his work with IEA Co-Directors Peer Bode and Joseph Scheer\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1311\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1311'>\n\t\t\t\tOmer (right) discussing his work with IEA Co-Directors Peer Bode and Joseph Scheer\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/Making_Love.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"839\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/02\/Making_Love.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"&quot;Making Love: Poetry in Motion&quot; opening poster\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1307\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1307'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Making Love: Poetry in Motion&#8221; opening poster\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;4&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243;][vc_column][vc_column_text]The iea was delighted to have Omer and Tal Golan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90110,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/90110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}