2 works by Olafur Eliasson & 1 by me

1m3 light is a box that's defined by light in a mist-filled room. Just as I was leaving the gallery, I realized that none of the 15 or so people who entered the room while I was there had walked through the work, even though it has no physical presence. I turned around and walked through the cube... it felt very transgressive.

I only see things when they move (2004) is a roomful of shifting colors created by a chandelier of slowly moving prisms. It strongly reminded of Sublime Zips (see below), which is part of my Frames installation.

Zips was created using a modified 16mm film projector. Film projectors work by constantly (and very speedily) pausing on a single frame of film, covering it with shutter, moving to the next frame, pausing, and uncovering the shutter. Despite the common impression, film does not move through the projector at a constant speed--instead it moves in a jerky, start/stop motion.

Zips has its shutter and intermittent device disabled, which causes the film to be projected in one continuous motion and eliminates viewers' persistence of vision. The projected image becomes a field of shifting colors.

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For a broader perspective of Eliasson's work, Rhizome has a nice write-up of his shows at MoMA and PS1. Also Tyler Green had an interesting series of posts (part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) earlier in the year that compared Eliasson to other artists.