Device_art 5.015

September 24th - October 4th, 2015
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The gallery space is darkened and dominated by an invisible sculpture of silent sound. Your body probes the space listening for the sculpture's spatial form to be expressed though the sounds of your contact with its immaterial presence. Many of the sounds are very physical (breaking ice and breaking glass, creaking metal, falling rocks, bursts of flame). They stand in stark contrast to the immaterial nature of the interaction: your hands and body appear to draw the sounds out of thin air. Intermixed with these sounds are other, incidental, sounds (a match being struck, coins rolling across the floor, the rustling of papers, frogs croaking at night) that, in conjunction with the physical sounds, propose bits of narrative, a sound track for an invisible movie. The interactive sound environment creates a spectral tactility, a confrontation between presence and absence like that which is increasingly present in our daily interactions with our contemporary devices and media.