Over Here, Over There
Data generated crystalline structure | Metal solution, Electronics, Data
2019
2019
The electromagnetic environment has been reconfigured by human ambition within an increasingly interconnected network. These impulses travel invisibly and silently through the atmosphere, forming the invisible infrastructure of modern communication. Yet when a signal or message is transmitted, what else does it encounter along its path?
In this project, directional antennas connected to containers of liquid metal were installed within an urban environment. Each configuration is capable of receiving the electromagnetic fields propagating through space at a given moment. Depending on the intensity and flux of these electromagnetic currents, the liquid metal reorganizes itself, evolving into crystalline formations. Resembling a living system, this microenvironment subtly grows out of informational exchanges—its morphology shaped by random fluctuations within human-influenced ambient conditions.
