- Full Name
- LadyK Studios
- Primary Picture
Luciferins, Interactive Installation (sound, fibers, code) 2021
- artiststudiomap
- Studio Street Address
- 93 19th Street, Brooklyn, NY
- Studio Address 2
- WorkSpace 4th Floor Studio #2
- Statement:
- Technology mediates our experiences and understanding of time. Communication technologies shape our identity, pushing us along the posthuman continuum. Algorithms show us the fragility and haphazard nature of time, communication, and memory - the moments that define experience and create identity. As a new media, fiber, and installation artist, I build interactive and responsive systems, which demonstrate the gaps, and connections that technology creates. My work explores the “hidden” side of algorithms that we use everyday - social media services, ‘memories’ algorithms, and the internet. Technology can be seen as an empowering equalizer. Yet, technology is not neutral. These works expose the underworld to technologies we use daily. They are a precursor to the work that I am developing which explores biased algorithms & data discrimination that reinforces oppressive social relationships.
- portfolio
- 1947 1634000245 Image:
Transmissions From The System, Responsive Object, 5 x 9 x 5 inches, 2016 Screen shows algorithmically transcribed voicemail messages, using Google Voice. No contact is made with the caller. The caller’s voice is mapped to lightbulb illumination level (using electronics). No audio is present. The light and text are communication artifacts from software tools created with the intention to facilitate communication. We are left with a haunting/puzzling/comical presence of the caller, while we depend on increasing technology. Messages are shown randomly and occasionally. 1949 1634001373 Image:1950 1634001428 Image:Felt, silk, breath sensor, LED’s, micro-controller, WiFi, LCD, custom software 5 x 5 x 4 inches A breath awakens a memory to the screen. As our own breath sustains us, our memories sustain us. Memory Capsules nurture memories through preservation. Technology’s role is questioned, as algorithms curate different narratives, while erasing others. The longer the piece runs, the more it manipulates memories by rearranging successive images, distorting images, re-orientating images, blacking out portions of the images and erasing images in their entirety. The device that has been entrusted to protect and preserve the memorie 1951 1634002009 Image:Luciferins, an interactive installation, is inspired by bioluminescent marine organisms and the plethora of invisible digital network traffic of popular websites that surrounds us. Viewers are invited to walk through the felted wool fiber structures that “sense” their presence and initiate graphical animations that are projected on the structures. As a viewer lingers, graphical portals open depicting invisible network communications. Field recordings interlaced with shortwave radio recordings play in the 7-channel sound system. **This work is currently on view on Governors Island at the Harvestworks House 10A in Nolan Park.The space is open weekends 11am - 5pm through October 31st.**
- Media:
- New Media
