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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. 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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