Project name:
Radian Heat : from industrial society to singularity
Artist name:
Spectral Investigations Collective [S.I.C]?=Bureau d'etudes, Alejandra Perez Nunez, Ewen Chardronnet, Horia Cosmin Samoila, Benjamin Cadon, Marie-Christine Driesen
Category:
Audiovisual performance
URL:
http://ljudmila.org/~pueblo/box/sic.ogg
Statement:
"...Electro-magnetic fields are biologically active, it means that living beings react to them... Electromagnetic fields created by human gadgets effect our body, influence nature and extend beyond boundaries of our planet… Our planet has become a source for a dense radio wave radiation in the Universe.. Every signal once transmitted on Earth continues to radiate in space…Radio, TV and satellite signals, e-mails and phone calls as well as nuclear test shock waves and military radars, experiments with low-frequency waves, even the radiation of microwave ovens… Invisible and omnipresent, electromagnetic fields have become ghosts of the modern world..." The performance of the Spectral Investigation Collective starts from this report and try to open fields of research on human beings working on their own obsolescence threw the massive use of machines and computational processes that could drive us to the "singularity point". This performance involves transposition of electromagnetic fields into the audio and visible range with the help of special devices and software built in this purpose. This performance first realized in Riga on may 07 can be led by 4 to 7 members of SIC This performance could be completed by participating to the software/hardware presentations threw 2 subjects : why do human beings are working on their own obsolescence ? (Théorical approch on the consequences of the use of computers and other "new" technologies on our bodies, societies, thinkings) and how to protect ourselves from technological influence ? (practical building of small electronic devices to listen to magnetic fields, the feelings of our inside green plants)
Tech:
p:d, gentoo, Pure Data, circuit building synthetiser, noise generator, theremin sensor, home built interferometer and electrosmog listener, arduino linked to a galvanometer, clothes-antennas, Tesla Hight Voltage Generator, Electronic Parts (a part of GhostLab?'s devices+experimental prototypes)