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« Demystifying the Æther » about exploring electromagnetic waves.
By taking the visible infrastructure as a starting point, media artist Félicien Goguey and sound artist Matthias Hurtl will introduce the participants to the notion of hertzian space and to the activities conducted within (broadcasting, telephony, aerospace, military, trading, surveillance…). Together they will demystify radio signals and other electromagnetic waves that fill the Æther [1].
After being introduced to dedicated hardware and Software Defined Radio, participants will aquire radio signals from different frequency bands on their own – not only as a raw material for sound and image – but also to explore and understand the socio-political dimension of this space from a citizen perspective. By doing so, participants delve into the narratives of the invisible signals around us that illustrate the expansive, systemic, and geological attributes of the Technosphere.
[1] The Æther is a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and support the propagation of electromagnetic waves, an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means of communication.