installation view:

The Digital Hub Warehouse - Nov /Dec 2003

With 'snow' Murnaghan investigates the memory of comfort through aging technology or via our "third parent" - television, focusing on a dysfunctional TV set as both catalyst and source material.

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 worn, dysfunctional television 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 who 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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