TED Talks: Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light

This is a bit off topic, but since I’m currently obsessed with TED Talks, I wanted to share this one.

According to the description: “In the spectacular large-scale projects he’s famous for (such as “Waterfalls” in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with an experiment in the nature of perception.”

What I found interesting were his thoughts at the start about how things get created, particularly media. In his case, he’s talking about art. But I immediately thought about the implications for news and the relationship with the community. He then goes on to talk about how people interact and experience his work, which I think is also different, but relevant to possible ways to think about how people consume news and information.