Past
Shows - Norm White, Myfanwy Ashmore
July 25 - August 25 1999
Myfanwy
Ashmore Whispering Wall
Whispering Wall is a construction made up of a false wall
with a row of eight electrical outlets installed in a row along
the bottom.
Photoresistors installed in the outlets are networked to a personal
computer and used to detect the presence of a viewer standing in
front of them.
Once the viewer is detected, the outlets emit randomized sounds
of small children playing. Cleverly, these faint sounds of the children's
laughter pulls us down to inspect what trickery the the socket might
be playing with us. Myfanwy's steers our head and eye level down
to a 2 foot range by subverting what we know to be the functionality
of the socket. This inspection of the socket as something different
that what we've always known it to be makes me think of the times,
as a kid, I was fascinated by these things that were on one hand
so "adult" and dangerous but at the same time one of the
few things that was positioned at my eye level and easily accessable
to me as a 4 year old. -Rob Ray |
photo: S.
Sinclair |
photo: S.
Sinclair |
photo: S.
Sinclair
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