A film installation exploring ubiquitous electromagnetic noise as a new planetary ecology, bridging astrophysics and hypersensitivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guillem Serrahima Sol\u00e0<\/strong> is a researcher, theorist, and filmmaker holding a PhD in Philosophy and Film Studies (Paris 8 University). His research focuses on crucial contemporary topics, including cybernetics, epistemology, machine vision, and techno-ecology<\/strong>. Much of his inquiry explores the aesthetic and epistemological role of informational noise<\/strong> in audiovisual format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ubiquitous Noise<\/em>, part of a trilogy exploring the kaleidoscopic meanings of noise in the techno-capitalist society, is an installation that investigates Earth’s electromagnetism and the noise-ecologies<\/em> it generates in both sensory experience and scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every body resonates at a certain frequency. Although imperceptible and meaningless to our senses, electromagnetic noise<\/strong> permeates all living environments. In recent decades, the intensive development of telecommunications systems has turned technology into a new atmospheric layer of noise, continuously present and disrupting all other frequencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The audiovisual installation takes us on a multi-scalar journey into astronomical, neural, natural, and technical signals, through three key moments:
\u2192 The Radio Quiet Zone (RQZ)<\/strong>: We travel to West Virginia (USA), an electromagnetic exception zone created to protect radio telescope observations from interference. In this atypical location, there is also a growing community of people suffering from electro-sensitivity\u2014an as-yet unrecognized condition\u2014forced to escape the continuous hum of telecommunications media.
\u2192 The Laboratory: <\/strong>We move to Maastricht\u2019s Brain and Emotion Laboratory, where scientists use magnetic fields and computer-generated radio waves to produce neural images, in a microscopic-scale experiment that mirrors the research at the RQZ.
\u2192 The Invisible City:<\/strong> We stroll through an unnamed city where telephone infrastructure has become ubiquitous and virtually invisible, yet electromagnetically sensed.
The work consists of a spatialized and randomized sound environment, a visual essay on the multi-scalarity of the electromagnetic spectrum, and, in a crucial component, an antenna<\/strong> that captures the technical electromagnetic frequencies of the immediate environment, bringing the noise of the exhibition space into the composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n