Mediated Intimacy: Chairs
This installation is the first in a series of objects constructed to explore ideas of mediated intimacy.
Two common lounge chairs sit back-to-back behind privacy curtains. Each embedded with 8 surface transducers (deconstructed speakers), the chairs emit low- frequency waveforms. A microphone in front of each chair triggers the transducers in the opposite chair. As participants wear headphones playing a drone composition to obfuscate external sounds, they use the microphones to engage in a conversation. The pitch and volume of each voice is tracked, producing vibrating sensations in the opposite chair which are felt as variable, dynamic, and musical. The result champions embodiment and privacy through a dialogue that is felt rather than heard.
In collaboration with Maya Livio
Exhibitions:
• Artist Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (ACRE) Gallery, Chicago, IL, US. 2016.
• Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, US. 2016.
• New Music Gathering, Bowling Green, OH, US. 2017.
Two common lounge chairs sit back-to-back behind privacy curtains. Each embedded with 8 surface transducers (deconstructed speakers), the chairs emit low- frequency waveforms. A microphone in front of each chair triggers the transducers in the opposite chair. As participants wear headphones playing a drone composition to obfuscate external sounds, they use the microphones to engage in a conversation. The pitch and volume of each voice is tracked, producing vibrating sensations in the opposite chair which are felt as variable, dynamic, and musical. The result champions embodiment and privacy through a dialogue that is felt rather than heard.
In collaboration with Maya Livio
Exhibitions:
• Artist Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (ACRE) Gallery, Chicago, IL, US. 2016.
• Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, US. 2016.
• New Music Gathering, Bowling Green, OH, US. 2017.