Holly Wilson
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Data Conflux: Oscillator to Inform Static Infinity
October 2014
Materials : Wood, emergency safety blanket, tin foil, cellophane mesh, VHS tape, Televisions, looped video, mirrors, overhead projector, found objects
Location : M I N T Gallery - 32 West Jenkins Ave, Columbus, OH
Thresholds - 71" X 68" X 35" 80" X 147" X 77" 94" X 162" X 104
Static Room - 40" X 84" X 109"
Amorphous Data - 85" X 101" X 47" 161 X 42" X 29 101" X 72" X 26"
Conductive material is manipulated excessively as it obstructs electromagnetic transmission to form a Faraday cage. The cage blocks all outside signal - isolating those inside into a personal state of static meditation. Multiple televisions are channeled to noise as an attempt to release the CMB(Cosmic Microwave Background) - cooled remnants from the original Big Bang explosion. Excessive static TV sets air to the residual radiation of the universe. I entice one to reach a spectrum know as ‘blackbody’ and attain a thermal equilibrium while exposing an abundance of light elements to ideal infinity. However, looped videos of solitary prison cells allude to an uneasy Utopia. Externally, amorphous data discharge lurks above and drifts representing predetermined instances and journey. Dispersed around the safe-hold, the thresholds propose the paradox decision to outstrip conformity or maintain existence within a systematic asylum.