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Our ‘Capturing Creativity’ class visited Gertrude Contemporary for our Wednesday Studio session.  The first pieces of innovate art we saw was from a collection called ‘Octopus 16: Antiques Roadshow’, these pieces of work reflected the dawn of the internet and online era.

All artists aimed to encapsulate the changing views and values of our society by bringing together art forms (the majority) which were multimedia. The exhibition choose it’s title “from the long-running BBC television series of the same name as a means to consider how value and historical importance might be considered within the present moment” (Gertrude Contemporary, 2016). A piece of work I considered most interesting was a machine that consistently released a scent that was meant to encapsulate ‘opening a MacBook for the first time’. I thought this instalment was very creative, interactive and made the audience really think about the concepts of what is art especially within modern digitalised society,

Octopus 16: Antiques Roadshow will be open until 8pm on Friday 15 July and Friday 22 July during the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, which runs from 15 July–24 July.