"Dancing Glass” was an installation, in part, to complete my Bachelor of Arts in New Media from Purchase College in 2017. Using re-purposed double-pane thermal windows, transducers, and projection mapping, the installation called viewers to examine their relationship with screens, terminals, and moving images. By highlighting the shape and power of these “portals,” users are prompted to focus more on the frame and the interdependent relationship of signal and noise rather than the framed transmission.
The installation used projection to play a looping ambient monitor light, the kind you see on an evening walk, passing by the windows of a home with a television on.
Transducers resonated glass frames, playing sound recordings of the glass's resonant frequencies recorded with contact microphones. Sound material mainly consisted of raindrops, airplanes overhead, and the occasional passerby, examples of things most often missed when attention is drawn to digital media.
In an increasingly loud, digital external world, we are at odds with continuous impressions of sound and light proliferated by screens. I am interested in reframing our relationship to screens so we might be empowered by the possibility of mediated communication rather than subject to it.