Laura Cline organized a fantastic interdisciplinary art event in Fisher Hall last Tuesday night. The space was decorated with long strands of white fabric hanging from the ceiling. There was a gigantic white bubble that you could crawl inside of.

Olivia Verdugo created a hallway with glow-in-the-dark metal “spiders,” hanging light bulbs of various types and sizes and crackling glass on the floor underneath which the audience was invited to walk through. It was lots of fun for the senses.

Leif Shackelford designed an electro-visual instrument consisting of a suspended metal bar and metal grids with projected images on them. Audience members were invited to put on headphones and a glove with one metal finger in order to “play” the bar, its natural resonances electronically amplified and filtered.

Sam Withrow played with Lego Technics™ and a circuit board and created motors that played various instruments. Jeffrey Christiani combined dancing, sound, video and electronics. By stepping in different places on a dance pad, audience members activated different sound and video clips. They could create their own visual, kinesthetic and auditory piece and get exercise!

Then there was the dancing. Elise Sipos, Caribeth Klemundt and Liz Johnson performed a piece wearing lots of metal things that made noise. Every motion added to the soundscape created by the performers. Another dance, Wing Span, involving Sipos again as well as Emily Booth and Anne Middleton, incorporated the audience. The dancers surrounded individual people and stared them down. This made lots of people nervous and was lots of fun.

Whenever something wasn’t going on, Josiah Oberholtzer provided electronic “room music,” and the audience mingled. This was a great time to talk and get to meet people in a great atmosphere! There was a lot of stuff that I missed, regrettably, because I had to leave early, such as Joe Kimmel and Walker Evan’s improvisation/Stockhausen group performing, and an “Extravagant Finale.” I don’t see how anyone could have gone to this exhibit without appreciating the amazing effort that went into it. It was great to see so many cool things from so many different artistic disciplines in one space, and I hope to see something like this again soon.