Control Signals real-time web crawling audio/video installation, 2022
Control Signals is a 20-monitor realtime algorithmically-driven video installation that uses my RGB.VGA.VOLT and CRT Flux Phaser projects to cycle through various video, audio, and web browsing events with randomized elements.
Software written in Cycling ‘74’s Max randomly executes over 40 events for randomized durations before contingently transitioning into the next event. At times, Apple Scripts open web browsers and browse social media accounts made for this installation, revealing the endless algorithmic feed of online social media consumption. As this content scrolls, the video is electromagnetically manipulated by random visuals from my CRT Flux Phaser system.
At times, images of broadcast television test cards, used to calibrate cathode ray tube televisions, are triggered and manipulated by the CRT Flux Phaser.
Other events display images of figureheads that develop, dictate, and monetize the systems and tools we use to communicate—Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, all of which are electromagnetically glitched.
My RGB.VGA.VOLT video synthesis system is triggered through algorithmic chance and electromagnetically processed, converting the stack of video displays into a bright and colorful synesthetic audio/video system that reveals the hidden materialities of these consumer devices.
