Decode: Digital Design Sensations at the Victoria and Albert Museum is all about moving image and interactive arts. The exhibition has three central themes: Code, Interactivity and Network and whilst this may sound as exciting as watching Stephen Baldwin praying, it's actually a misleadingly dull description.
The Code part involves pieces that use computer code to create constantly fluid and ever-changing works, the kind of visuals that might appear before you in an East London warehouse on a Saturday night. Interactivity is what it says on the tin, where you get to interact and influence the art like you did with the electricity ball at the Science Museum when you were ten. Finally, the Network exhibits are all about the digital traces left behind by everyday communications and how "advanced technologies and the internet have enabled new types of social interaction and mediums of self-expression."
Among the pieces by Daniel Brown, Jason Bruges, Troika and Karsten Schmidt there’s a matrix of light panels that record visitors' movements and reflect them in an image projected across water, digitally growing plants and a mechanical eye that mirrors the blink of a visitor's gaze. Whether or not that's got your blood pumping I don't know but at least it’s a bit more involved than some dusty old paintings.
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