- In class on 3/28, Nun asked me if I was thinking of creating more of an exhibition piece, or a kit. I had been thinking of a collection of interactive art pieces that could stand together in an exhibition and hadn’t considered the idea of creating a kit. But thinking about that idea a bit more deeply, it does make sense. I’m essentially using this semester to build my own kit, and am doing the experimentation about what works and what doesn’t.
- This question helped me realize what I ultimately am trying to do is to shed some light on radio waves (their physical behavior, application, and social impact), and to help my audience (right now, just me) understand how they work at a deeper, tangible level. This is a challenge because radio waves are invisible and move through the air, rather than moving through a material.
- I’m not doing justice to the mini-epiphany I had at the beginning of the meeting with Sarah the next day, but I finally am starting to have a clearer vision of my “why”, besides “radio waves are cool, and it’s fun”. I want to physically learn and embody the waves… or something. Maybe to interact with sound and other physical things to understand radio waves more thoroughly. Okay, maybe I have some more work to do on actually putting that “why” into words.
- Once I started talking about this with Sarah, she also seemed to have a stronger understanding and sense of what I was hoping to achieve. She started to wonder if using a sound walk as my form may be interesting and suggested looking up Janet Cardiff’s Her Long Black Hair . In this walk, Cardiff has the audience walk through Central Park and talks them through the different sounds and sights. Occasionally she will cue the audience to hold up a series of photographs, allowing them to interact with the real world in a very specific way that moves the narrative forward.
- Maybe I could have a box that has experiments and a sound walk?
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