8-1/2′ x 2-1/2′ x 6′ each Blown glass, concrete, steel, various materials
Sympathetic is a system of mixed-media devices that demonstrate technological mystification and critique its tendency towards exploitation and violence. These devices sing, harmonize, and amplify the obscure mechanisms of 21st century culture, in which social relations are fabricated, collected, propagated, and sold.
4-1/2″ x 17″ x 14″ Modified CRT TV, concrete, steel, analog electronics
See video of it working here: https://vimeo.com/1054370293.
Listener is a modified CRT TV wired to display the sounds it hears in the gallery as an analog waveform, like an oscilloscope. What’s going on in there?
5′ x 40″ x 22″ Blown glass, salt water, concrete, electronics
See video of it working here: https://vimeo.com/1054647106
Speaker System is a concrete radio that plays a looping recording of the ambient sounds in the room. The transmitter uses a concrete microphone to send a radio signal, and the radio broadcasts that signal through four saltwater chambers