(in)sensible

Immersive Experience by Artist and SCAD Professor John Colette

A professional in the media arts spanning 35 years in both the industry and academia. John Colette currently works at the Savannah College of Art and Design as a Professor in the Motion Media Design department.

Dupont Underground partnered with John Colette to feature his large-scale light and sound projections, which took over the Underground from December to January 2020. Colette’s work involves large public display systems, media control systems, interactivity, and sonification projects for a truly immersive experience. This experience evoked different emotions throughout the tunnels, forcing spectators to stop and take in the images projected.

(in)sensible is a process of becoming and un-becoming. There are two cyclical “modes” which are themselves distributed and interwoven across the Underground. These moments are known as form and dis-integration. The form is contingent - it is in flux, held together by invisible currents. It is an image of consensus, of the shape of an idea.  In form - all that is solid melts into air, and now the air is all that remains. A solid made from the air will never assume a final shape.