Projects on new media paradigm - electromagnetic substance:
Media Inclusus in St. Bernardine Church, 2011. Some variations of the project appeared in other public spaces of Vilnius, Lithuania.
Media Inclusus
Construction scaffolding for restoration of the sacred space of St. Bernardine Church in Vilnius, Lithuania, stand like antibodies and influence not only religious life but also attract the energies that are opposite to the surroundings. Suitable frequencies attract not only common waves, but are shut down by stronger waves of propaganda and Russian speaking radio station Radio Svoboda, the extremely opposite worldview for the religious milieu. Christian faith is forced by Russian slogans and Great neighbor's discussions on local issues find warm shelter. Psychogeophysics and media ecology come together to resolve clearance of semantic pathetics.
Inclusive artifacts invoke metal construction as antennae for rendering a message and hearing inaudible and invisible. Site-specific media art project is asking the question of where precisely the hidden executes.
Officially, there is no commercial or military communication around the ELF frequency – but in this range, you also can find signals similar to sferics and produced by natural processes in the atmosphere – especially at periods of sun spots and polar lights. At this site (St. Bernardine Church) radio pollution is too strong to hear any environmental sonics.
About circuit: The circuit detects and amplifies ELF (extremely low frequency) electromagnetic emissions with some low pass filtering for audio frequency output. The circuit can be used with a range of coils at the input.
Mobile module: EM sniffer, handy camcorder, and headphones.
/ Psychogeography can be defined as an examination of the total effects of geography and place on the individual.
/ Psychogeophysics expands this artistic research to embrace geophysics, defined as the quantitative observation of the earth's physical properties, and its interaction with local signal ecologies.
Psychogeophysics proposes a series of interdisciplinary public experiments excavating the spectral city and examining the precise effects of geophysical/spectral ecologies on the individual through pseudo-scientific measurement and mapping, algorithmic walking and the construction of situations.
Scaffolding in St. Bernardine Church in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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Maxwell City - sonic artwork, 19 min. 50 sec. A compilation of electromagnetic sounds recorded during the Maxwell City workshop at Atelier Nord. Using different antennaes and coils the participants attempted to document the electromagnetic soundtrack of various parts of Oslo. Contribution by Vygandas Simbelis, HC Gilje, Amanda Steggell, Martin Howse, Erich Berger, Atle Barcley, Sofia, Sneha, Lindsay Brown.
Artwork broadcasted in 2007-2008 at Ctrl_Alt_Del Sound Art Festival. Radio broadcasting worldwide in New York (P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre), Athens (1st Athens Biennial), Montreal, Ghent, Berlin, Zagreb, Basel, Graz, Zurich, Istanbul (10th International Istanbul Biennial).
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The Rosary (from Latin rosarium, meaning "rose garden") or "garland of roses" is a popular and traditional Catholic devotion. The term denotes both a set of prayer beads and the devotional prayer itself, which combines vocal or silent prayer and meditation.
Artwork Media Rosary is designed of different format connectors and crossovers smoothly connected to each other into closed circuit. It seems to become a technological devotion for media artists. Media Rosary is accompanied by the sound artwork Listen to the Window, where the window provides certain parameters for the antennae. The electromagnetic sniffer receives waves in the gallery with the direct antennae made out of metal foil tape sticked around the window frame.
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Beta Band Interface - is electromagnetic apparatus transmitting frequency around beta band onto human brain. Some scientists have suggested that this level of waves may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute to a ghost and 19 Hz might be responsible for some ghost sightings.
Electromagnetic induction made by directly inducing voltage in human brains through the spinning of a copper wrapped bicycle wheels across the earths magnetic dipole.
For example, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a technique used to induce a short-term interruption of normal activity in a relatively restricted area of the brain by rapidly changing a strong magnetic field near the area of interest.
The project was presented at Pixel festival, Bergen, Norway.
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The project “Oslo Sound” is backed-up in 1864 by Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell with his revolutionaries and equations. It takes practice in Oslo (Norway) city and its surroundings and is proposing an artistic investigation into electromagnetic substance: media ecological spectrum of urban space.
The real world and electromagnetic sound play choreography in video (2 channel video projection) and observer is involved in interactive play of media art installation.
2 video projections, gambling machine, 2 EM ELF sniffers, 10 kW sound system. Exhibited in INTRO art centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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The project “Sonic Oslo” is an artistic investigation into electromagnetic substance in Oslo, Norway. ELF (extremely low frequency) sniffer catches pulses of hidden and invisible urban world where electromagnetically polluted environment screams about unseen danger. The project explains simple techniques within Media Ecology and warns about social policy concerning our daily habits and lovely widgets.
The real world and electromagnetic sound play choreography in media art installation (two channel video projection) and video is involved in an interactive play between 2 screens where the length of videos is different and live montage between projections creates never endless mix in sound and video.
Material was captured in Oslo. Footage was edited in Vilnius.
Video length 34'24'’ & 33’10’’, loop.
Exhibited in Mejan gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Vygandas Simbelis idiosyncratically marks a zone – only in an urban environment and devoid of human protagonists; in Sonic Oslo an antenna-like device plays the lead. The device, whose little head registers radiation, is taken for a walk around the Norwegian capital and speaks up whenever it meets electromagnetic impulses in cash machines or cell phones, and a robotic conversation take place as they speak each other’s tongue of whimpering, tapping and clicking. Again, places have been charged, but in a literal way.
It was the radical Lettrist and Situationist International groups who initiated the practice later known as psychogeography, ”re-mapping” cities in an act of anti-capitalist, consumer-conscious criticism. Before them was Baudelaire’s flâneur, also subtly attempting to redefine an existing urban landscape by placing themselves in it, walking it, inhabiting it, in determined new ways. Many have followed, carrying out pedestrian explorations in city settings; or in rural equivalents where the occult plays a part, searching for latent alternative geographies drawn for example in ley lines.
Johanne Nordby Wernø, ”Your place or mine?”, on ”Site-Sensitive Acts”.
