Inouk Demers: Wireless Landscape at Soundwalk 2011

Wireless Landscape is an audio installation with diorama first presented at Soundwalk 2011 in Long Beach, California, by media artist Inouk Demers.

For a clearer sample of the audio component, go to
soundcloud.com/​inouk-demers/​desert-bands
For still images, go to inoukdemers.com/​works.html#multimedia

Wireless Landscape (formerly Desert Bands) is a nocturnal desert diorama with sound. An abandoned vehicle and an old TV set lie among the sand and brush, at the foot of two mountains. It might be the setting for a B-rated post-apocalyptic movie. Over the mountains loom several cell sites that have inexplicably overtaken this remote region. Swirling in the air above are ghostly fragments of radio and wireless transmissions (local foreign language radio programs, Bible radio, emergency medical, police, air traffic control, shortwave and amateur radio; continuously recycled and reprocessed). The piece plays on ideas of isolation and connectedness, the overwhelming flow of streams of information, and the role of danger, aggression, invisibility and control in communications and communications networks.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• sound art
• diorama
• wireless
• cell sites

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Fantastic!