Study for a surrounding entropy
Conjuring the ambient chaos through radio information
At any given moment in time, our atmosphere is responsible for a sea of electromagnetic noise, like the signature of the current state of the disorder around us. Among those random events propagated in the air, human communications bring glimpses of order, predictability, symmetry, like a disturbance in the ambient quantity of information, the entropy.
The installation is an attempt at giving a presence to that rumbling chaos.
The capturing device (the radio dongle and its antenna) acts as the “crystal ball” of the process ; visitors around it will actively or passively have an influence on the result, should they touch it or approach a communicating device. The geographical situation itself will shape it, making it a site-specific setup.
Behind, the display proposes a visual interpretation of the measured chaos, supported by the audio.
Concept / Programming: Robin Jungers
Hardware Design: Tatsuya Motoki
Supervision: Nao Tokui
Artist Profile
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Robin Jungers (Qosmo)
ロビン・ジャンガース (Qosmo)
Born in 1994 in Nantes, France. After a preparatory course in physics and mathematics, Robin studied software engineering at the University of Paris-Est, specialized in multimedia and visual creation. He spent a semester at the Future University of Hakodate as an exchange student, where he worked on natural approaches to synthesize generative visuals, being mainly interested in raw and simple aesthetics.
Robin joined Qosmo in 2017.