The
Digital Hub Warehouse - Nov /Dec 2003
With 'snow' Murnaghan
considers pareidolia, our need to make sense of the abstract, by utilising
ageing technology, or via our third parent, television. This work focuses
an animist eye on material drawn from the ether through the erratic convulsions
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 acts to boost the antenna
helping to pull the signal to earth. Analogue signals, residue from the
big bang and other visual contaminents are filtered through the viewer.
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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