installation view:

Original drawing for Snow.

The Digital Hub Warehouse - Nov /Dec 2003

With 'snow' Murnaghan considers childhood memories of comfort through aging technology or via our third parent, television. This work focuses an animist eye on the residue of a dysfunctional TV set.

Black and White TV static and coat hanger aerials are disposable objects and images of our suburban late twentieth century childhood. At the end of a darkened walk, there is an entrance through a wall constructed from wire hangers which act as antenna. This wall is connected to a broken TV which tries, but never succeeds in locking on to a constant signal, finding no stability in its existence.

The resulting sound and monochrome imagery is affected by the proximity or closeness of the observer whose presence helps to pull the signal to earth. A circuit was constructed to allow the computer to see static which digital technology normally forces it to disregard as waste, this is then slowed down and back projected onto the walls of an immersive construct of fabric and tensioned steel wire. The space itself appears cognisant of human presence through a constantly evolving aesthetic, imbued with random flashes of imagery and sound that have been filtered through human presence.

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