08.06.2024 –, NewYorck Room 2
Sprache: English
A presentation on how western media archaeology was influenced by the practices of mediums exploring the invisible ethers collaborating and inventing new ways to wirelessly communicate in the mid XIXth & XXth century using body's, fluids, electricity, craft, electromagnetism, radio, occult energies and experimental science to channel with the cosmos, human and non human entities, the weird and the unknown.
The 2nd part will be a hands on to do some ghost hunting in the invisibles : Delving in electronic hardware to channel, wire, communicate and interlace with our electromagnetic environment: listing to the discreet, the micro energies, interferences and channelling in our electronic circuits to sense, dream or hallucinate with them. How can techno feminist practices create alternative ways to think of our electromagnetic environment weaving with discreet invisible materialities ?
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Was sollte man zur Session mitbringen? –headphones, USB chargers & cables, broken discarded cables or hardware
The artworks of Claire Williams take the form of woven antennas, glass sculptures filled with plasma or devices that sense the invisible. Data of radiotelescopes and radio scanners materialise themselves in knitted stitches, sound vibrations or through luminous plasma. She sculpts her electronic components to make visible the electromagnetic movements from the cosmos, through our magnetosphere, to radio waves that cross our terrestrial environment or the ones emanating from our bodies and psychic activity. She is currently exploring in a duo « The Æthers » which collects and reactivate practices of the invisibles found in the archives of experimental and occult sciences of the 19th and 20th century.