M(ol)AR HYBRID LANDSCAPE

Abstract

"M(ol)AR, HYBRID LANDSCAPE" is a site-specific, durational installation that emerges from research on antenna design and fabrication, radio exploration, and machine listening. This dissertation is an outgrowth of a series of artistic projects I developed at DXARTS, University of Washington, between 2020 and 2024.This project revolves around fundamental questions: What is the role of technology in the paradigm of the Anthropocene? What possible futures can we speculate about by understanding and learning from nature's intelligence? The installation is a fictional and hybrid landscape, a convergence of technological elements with natural ones: objects, sculptures, plastic, wires, speakers, computers, rocks, creatures, fluids, motors, and sensors. It juxtaposes electricity and water, plastic and salt, copper and sand, sound and objects, the inaudible and the invisible.