"Dancing Glass” was an installation in part to achieve 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 looping ambient monitor light, the type of light you see on an evening walk, passing by the windows of a home with a television set on.
Transducers resonated glass frames, playing sound recordings produced by recording resonant frequencies of the glass using 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.
Between an increasingly loud and digital external world, constant shifting baselines in regard to policy and communication, as well as increased access and normalization of consumer media technology, we are at odds with a continuous bombardment 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.