“Static Mediations [2021 – ongoing]” by Timothy Tate, Xenobia Frost
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Static Mediations [2024] playfully explores the ways digital technologies increasingly mediate our experience of the world. A participatory installation, the work contrasts obsolete technologies with modern-day questions about the security of our data — including one’s face, voice and movements — and the uncanny feedback loop of algorithmically targeted content.
Static Mediations begins with an interactive terminal, where — through the medium of a poetic text adventure — the participant is offered choices that impact the installation beyond. Inside, hacked televisions, cameras and various magnetic media observe, interpret and negotiate the presence of visitors to create a feedback loop of light, sound and text. Is this space an ecosystem, a friendly interlocutor or a panopticon?
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- 2024 Tate, Forest: Static Mediations [2021 – ongoing]
- 2024 Tate, Forest: Static Mediations [2021 – ongoing]