Reverse Extraction
Performance, composition, installation / 2022
Electromagnetic pickup, synthesiser, iPhone, smart watch, CCTV, labtop
Reverse Extraction challenges the asymmetric relationship between humans and digital surveillance technologies. The work utilizes electromagnetic pickups to hack into a set of electronic monitoring devices and play them as instruments. During the performance, the data is extracted from the digital monitoring devices, processed, and arranged as a sound composition. In this way, humans can treat the devices in the same way that they treat us. Therefore, Reverse Extraction disrupts the unidirectional relationship between the surveiller (digital devices) and the surveilled (us).
Reverse Extraction was developed in response to the age of the digital panopticon. The increasing prevalence of smart technologies in our lives has led to a pervasive culture of surveillance. Despite the seeming ubiquity of these technologies, Reverse Extraction proceeds to artistically imagine the symbiotic relationship between us humans and digital surveillance.
Reverse Extraction was developed in response to the age of the digital panopticon. The increasing prevalence of smart technologies in our lives has led to a pervasive culture of surveillance. Despite the seeming ubiquity of these technologies, Reverse Extraction proceeds to artistically imagine the symbiotic relationship between us humans and digital surveillance.
A Cage for Whom
Cages, Antique Clock Parts, Interactive Sound / 2022
Dimensions variable
Exhibited at AMP Gallery, London, UK
A Cage for Whom questions human's empowerment
of time through idealised rhythm. The artwork grounds in the increasing
disbelieve in modern time-keeping system, which has been developed to create a
dimension of rhythm superior to the nature. As a result , the time as a
continuum has been annihilated to regulatable units.
The artwork provides a interactive sonic experience of empowerment. With a clap, the audience can reset a mess of found clock sounds back to synchronised. Following the idea of regulating time, the artist developed a set of physical installation with Cages, mesh, and antique clock parts.
The artwork provides a interactive sonic experience of empowerment. With a clap, the audience can reset a mess of found clock sounds back to synchronised. Following the idea of regulating time, the artist developed a set of physical installation with Cages, mesh, and antique clock parts.