late post, but thank everyone who made @nocturnehalifax happen!! It has been hard for me to make any form of art again. For the past 5 years, i haven't really expressed through my media. It's nice to circle back into NSCAD location to share our project. It was a little baby step that meant a lot for me. Thanks again, @jjananigans , @bizzlesquig_only and many more 🖤💗❤️
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INVISIBLE x FREQUENCIES x IDENTITIES
North End Cymatic Society (Woochang Kim, John Janigan-Mills)
The FAB (Former Art Bar)
1873 Granville St
Are invisible frequencies part of your identity; your essence? Come decide for yourself as your digital data is rendered through a complex array of antennas and signal processors into the analog world of light and sound, generating cymatic patterns and soundscapes that mimic the complexity of the social ecosystems that these invisible frequencies secretly inhabit.
Enter INVISIBLE x FREQUENCY x IDENTITIES; a cymatic installation that renders these invisible data packets containing your digital identity into the “real” analog world using light and sound. In the center of the Art Bar lies a sculpture that contains a bowl of water attached to a speaker and a radio antenna. A spotlight shines onto the water and projects the waves onto a screen. The radio antenna inside the sculpture picks up the digital data radiating out from your cell phone and transforms it into audible frequencies to be played by the speaker. As the speaker vibrates, it generates interference patterns in the water that once represented your digital identity. The more people there are surrounding the sculpture, the more complex a pattern will be generated, symbolizing the complexity of social ecosystems that our digital identities create.
At the crossroads of art and science lives the friendship of Woochang Kim and John Janigan-Mills. Together they explore the existential realities of “current year” ™ and the far corners of their psyches’ by creating Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions intended to portray reality in distorted but illuminating ways. By interpreting the sum of both natural and artificial worlds through their individual expression, they aim to map out previously unknown links from one part of the artistic stratosphere to another.
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