Extagram/Oscilo

Extagram/Oscilo explores intrinsic signals and frequencies of electronic and early digital equipment. Extagram 1 consists of six black textile objects with incorporated custom made electronic components. The exhibition’s visitors influence the quantity and quality of the audio-visual particles transmitted by these objects by touching them or moving in their proximity. Extagram 2 recycles digital particles from the Extagram/Oscilo audio-visual works. Extagram/Oscilo is devised as a collection, a digital library of recycled frequencies, mutating glitches, trajectories of test-signals and particles of toy sounds.
Discrete Events in Noisy Domains series is a succession of closely related media artworks within which I explored synthetic life forms, our attachment to gadgets, ambivalence towards technology, and the Internet of Things phenomenon. Sometimes objects in the installations were collecting data from the spaces through multiple sensors, yet that fact was mostly ignored by the visitors due to their approachable interfaces. For most of these works, I made custom software in Max/Msp/Jitter. For Oskop, I used the custom-made patch in Quartz Composer in combination with Audio Mulch. Within Blipstat, I used data sonification, and in Oscilorama data visualization and sonification. All works question contemporary media channels, glitches, noise, and invisible data trajectories and contain custom or ready-made electronic devices to form a temporary network of some sort that included the visitors. They are, in a way, transitory mappings of data fluxes and their oscillations and trajectories. Sometimes they were materialized as random locations of info-dust or anthropomorphized data-emitters, ranging from audio-visual installations and reactive environments to installations in public spaces, allowing visitors and passers-by to participate in the audio-visual reverberations. Works that belong to the Discrete Events in Noisy Domains series, as generative temporary probes, and as transformative structures, dissect some of the hidden layers of technology. The questions that these works open are important and relevant questions regarding tweaking, networking, and sampling of contemporary media tools with all of their data-flows, channels, and grains of signals.