{"id":3706,"date":"2011-10-29T01:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2011-10-29T01:39:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T01:39:50","slug":"review-datafields-arlington-mercury-steve-thurston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3706","title":{"rendered":"Review – Data\/Fields – Arlington Mercury – Steve Thurston"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Data\/Fields: What You See Is What You Hear
\nby Steve Thurston
\nSeptember 30, 2011<\/p>\n

DATA\/FIELDS, New Media Installation Works, runs from Sept. 22 through Nov. 27 in the Artisphere’s Terrace Gallery. Free.<\/p>\n

Data Fields: Mixing Sound and Vision
\nArtisphere
\n1101 Wilson Blvd., 22209
\nPhone (703) 875-1100<\/p>\n

By: Steve Thurston, Mercury Editor
\nI hit the opening of Data\/Fields at the Artisphere in Rosslyn on Friday, Sept. 23; I\u2019m not totally sure what I was looking at, but it was fun just the same.\u00a0 It\u2019s the sort of show that people stayed to gawk over, and strangers talked with each other about what they saw, said curator Richard Chartier, and that was my experience as well.<\/p>\n

Viewers just couldn\u2019t help talking to one another at Ryoji Ikeda\u2019s \u201cdata.scan.\u201d We stared at a screen that looked just a bit like the old Pac-Man console screen (the ones you sit down to play, back in the day). A series of lines and dots scrolled over it. Three distinct types of screens developed, one looked like static, the other like empty space with red cross hairs shifting through. The final one looked like a video transcription of radio signals or something similar.
\nAt the same time, the background sound that seemed random \u201cping\u201d-ed every now and then, and those pings, we realized, announced that data had been organized or arranged in some way on the screen. It\u2019s about then that someone looked down at the moving crosshairs and said that the ping comes when the crosshairs find a star, Alpha Centauri, for instance. It\u2019s the heavens. That static, said someone else bent close to the monitor, is a string of numbers, tiny numbers. It\u2019s mapping the heavens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis would be the coolest coffee table ever,\u201d one man said.<\/p>\n

Chartier told me in a phone interview after the event that Ikeda does not give interviews or talk publicly about his work, but that he is known for seeing data everywhere. Everything can be measured and turned into data, and by choosing the heavens, that sense of infinity increases.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s almost like the work is about incomprehensibility. You can\u2019t put your head around it,\u201d Chartier said.
\nIn another part of the cavernous room, where white noise and the occasional ping can be heard, people gathered around Caleb Coppock\u2019s \u201cGraphite Sequencer.\u201dThe modified turntable picks up electric signals from pencil lines drawn on heavy-stock paper. The graphite in pencil \u201clead\u201d conducts electricity and sends the signals to the headphones.<\/p>\n

\u201cPercipients,\u201d as Chartier calls the people who come to the installation, look at the disks hanging on the wall, think about what each might sound like, put a disk on the turntable and don the headphones to hear burps, buzzes, rasps and zzzzzzzzz-es in various patterns.
\nby Steve Thurston
\nSeptember 30, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Data\/Fields: What You See Is What You Hear by Steve Thurston September 30, 2011 DATA\/FIELDS, New Media Installation Works, runs from Sept. 22 through Nov. 27 in the Artisphere’s Terrace Gallery. Free. Data Fields: Mixing Sound and Vision Artisphere 1101 Wilson Blvd., 22209 Phone (703) 875-1100 By: Steve Thurston, Mercury Editor I hit the opening … <\/p>\n

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