Wave Signs (2016)
Collaboration with Amaranth Borsuk
Sound Installation
Giant Steps: Artist Residency on the Moon
Group Competition and Exhibition
King Street Station, Seattle, WA
March 3 - April 3, 2016
http://wave-signs.com/
In 1946, before satellites existed, The US. Army Signal Corps began exploring the projective possibilities of the moon’s mute surface. Project Diana hailed the moon by the name of its Roman goddess, using it as a passive reflector of radio waves to bridge long communication distances on earth by sending a signal 768,000 Kilometers through space and time to return just 2.5 seconds later.
Wave Signs meditates on this historic relationship, creating a relay between these two orbs that exert such force over one another. In the gallery, two industrial megaphone-style speakers suspended from the ceiling represent relay stations on the Earth and moon. They communicate via a call and response text — a gradually mutating poem that builds a doublet, or word ladder, connecting them. Visitors passing between hear voices echoing from one to the other, creating intersections and changes of phase in which Earth and Moon take turns leading the conversation.
Our installation also included a scale model of the digital converter box, NASA’s Catalogue of Man made Material on the Moon, and the schematic representation of Project Diana‘s moon bounce.
The jury of aerospace and arts professionals selected Wave Signs for the grand prize of 10K at the opening of the exhibition.
