Witness

I found Susan Hiller's piece Witness to not only be interesting but also aesthetically appealing and cool to look at. The piece is a soundscape where stories can be heard of encounters of aliens that the artist pulled from the internet. When a listener is not close to an individual speaker, the voices sound muddled and are hard to hear. But when close to one of the speakers, the listener can hear the story perfectly. It is interesting to see through this piece how many different people who are potentially far away from each other can experience the same thing, when that thing has not been scientifically proven. The book talks about how the piece looks like a spider's web and how the web is connected, but I see the piece as looking like a starry night sky that works together to create a unique look.

Shanken, page 115.