Lost in Translation
360 VR Video and Sound Peice
Materials/Process
This project consists of a sculptural element, in the handmade radio transmitter I created partially in Illustrator, a sound element in the audio piece that created in Premier Pro to be transmitted. For teh sound peice I used leftover blueprints from the factory to research specific industrual equitment that existed in the space and the sounds they may have made. The site specific performative piece in the act of me exploring to the abandoned factory to listen for lost transmissions, and an interactive/video element provided by the 360 VR camera which allows the viewer to to experience the piece from a first person perspective. The radio transmatters were left onsite for others exploring the area to disc.
Location/Documentation
Palimpsests are both geological and social occurrences where something that once was is repurposed but leaves behind elements of its past iterations. Chicago was once a center of manufacturing for the country, it is now the rust belt as society progressed that era. In my exploration of these places where progress has been paused I can re-create these spaces and experience them as they were.
Progress
We race towards the future with our backs turned to it blindly fascinated with by fleeting milestones of contemporary society. There is no meaning, nothing exists long enough for meaning to be attributed to its existence, everything is in a constant state of transition. We live as though life is elsewhere, as if we are falling behind in the race towards something utopian with dystopia only a few paces behind. These two concepts represent the push and pull that forms humanity’s incessant progression towards modernity. This constant cycle is driven by the guize that if we are not pursuing some form of utopian ideal we are retrogressing.
Let us retrogress.
Countination?
