LIMBO Tracker, 2024
Mixed media, Radio waves, Soundscape
LIMBO Tracker is an artistic research of receiving satellite signals. It includes a QHF antenna, a radio, a computer system, and several documents. The work presumes an imaginary figure tracking a particular satellite called TRANSIT 5B-5. This satellite was a US Navy navigation satellite launched in December 1964.
TRANSIT 5B-5 is the oldest satellite that is known to still transmit a signal. It has been considered "dead" for many years because its navigational systems failed after nineteen days of operation, but for some reason, it still emits a telemetry signal on 136.658MHz when the solar panel is illuminated by the sun. Some amateur radio operators coined a term called "Zombie satellite" to refer to such kinds of satellites.
The signal received by the antenna is converted into sound through
a computer and radio conversion device and played. The data is a signal
received from an actual zombie satellite (TRANSIT 5B-5) and converted into sound,
the documents placed next to it are a part of records left by a fictitious person
captured by this satellite.
This imaginary character receives the signal from the zombie satellite without
knowing whether it exists or not. She/He then creates and assigns a unique name
to the origin of the signal and leaves a record of his tracking activities.
LIMBO (Lost Inactive Mysterious Beeping Object)
is the new term this person gives to it.
Specification
Size:
250(width) X 250(depth) X 190(height) CM
Materials:
Copper tubes, Coax cable, PVC Pipe, Satellite dish tripod, Outdoor table, Software defined radio
Software:
SDR++
Exhibition:
Fictions, Speculations & Imaginaries
(18. April - 20. April. 2024, Halle 1, HFK, Bremen)
Blooming radio waves, 2023 - 2024
Mixed-media, Soundscape, Kinetic
The ecological or post-anthropocene perspective starts from awareness of our current situation. One of the various artificial traces created by humans is radio waves. It creates so many waves, so we can tell that we live in the radio waves civilization. By creating a device that is sonifying this huge ecological footprint, we can recognize the shock that is not captured by our senses.
→ Github Repository
The project device has a flower-shaped antenna and a simple radio circuit. The antenna on the front receives radio waves around the device, like the cognitive organ of a living organism. The detected signal passes through a radio circuit and is converted into a sound that audiences can hear. Through this signal, the audiences can recognize the footprints of the gigantic technological civilization that always exists around us.
Specification
Size:
250(width) X 250(depth) X 190(height) CM
Materials: Copper tapes, Coax cable, Synthetic textile, Camera tripod, Stepper motor, Microcontroller, FM Radio circuit
Software:
Arduino, C++
Hyperobject Dowser, 2021
Mixed media, Kinetic
People always try to find a way to identify an invisible thing that
surrounds us. Like they did to nature. The more it feels terrifying and
makes us humiliated, The more we strive to come up with tools to solve
the problem. However, not all of the solutions were adequately made.
One of the examples was dowsing Rod. Even in this modern time, people
could stick to a thinking process based on fear and curiosity which is
highly dependent on an irrational mind, just like the way people thought
in the past.
→ Github Repository
The device was inspired by an idea that derived from the speculation between the notion of hyperobject, humiliating artificial environments, and Lovecraftian monsters. This superstitious apparatus detects the presence of a hyperobject veiled behind in the air by using implicit information such as radio wave signals from Wifi and satellites.
This apparatus considers data collection activity from the stacks of networks as a creepy gaze from the hyperobject in the form of electromagnetic pulses and represents its magnitude as a rotation of two brass rod. The more the device detects the density of artificial signals nearby, the stronger the gaze it represents. Thus, the device make the brass rod rotate further based on the magnitude of the signal.
Specification
Size:
34(width) X 5(depth) X 34(height) CM
Materials:
Brass rod, Brass shaft coupling, PLA, Custom circuit board,
GPS module, WiFi antenna
Software:
Arduino, C++