One artist from the Reading whose work was greatly impressive to me is Keith Obadike. Keith is an American born Nigerian artist whose work is immensely influenced by Blackness and its many great attributes. Keith’s most famous art work, so to speak, is his ‘Blackness for Sale’ intervention piece where he essentially puts his blackness up for auction on eBay, echoing the slave auctions of recent history. Although that was one of his genius and captivating art ideas, the most interesting of his work to me is his “FIT: The Battle of Jericho” sound installation created for the opening of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Breuer building. This sound installation is based on the African-American spiritual ‘Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho’. The gallery is lined with a few small wall-mounted speakers and as the piece begins, the walls vibrate and rattle as the sounds build. The work is approximately 9 mins in total and plays on a loop. 

Marie Sester is an artist who works with cross-disciplinary practices and experimental systems in Interactive Art and uses tracking technologies, light, audio, video, and biofeedback to focus on social awareness and the responsibility of personal commitments. Most, if not all of her work focuses on how culture, politics and technology affect our spatial awareness, emotions, and general believes. A really interesting work of hers not covered in our reading is her ‘Emotion’ installation where she places simple every day objects such as lamps, furniture, plants, etc. in public paces where most of its occupants are unaware and oblivious to the fact that each object serve another purpose. Some of the objects glow, some bend, some make uncommon noises and all of these occurrences usually renders most of the people who witness them, speechless.