art, science, theory, multimedia

Seedlings 2/2022, Installation at SUNY Fredonia, curated by John Massier

We saw these towers 1

We went to these towers 2

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We recorded these towers 3

These towers face other towers 4

We could see those towers too 5

Those towers transmit to these towers 6

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Those towers make waves 7

We cannot see those waves 8

The waves reshape other waves 9

We made waves you can see 10

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These waves connect the towers 11

The towers connect the waves 12

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We plant towers we feel we need 13

There are many towers we plant 14

We feel good about the towers 15

They make waves for us to need with 16

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We plant more towers 17

And feel more waves 18

We change how we feel 19

About these towers 20

The towers are seedlings 21

There will always be towers 22

Footnotes:

1 as of 2020 there were 417,215 cell towers registered in the US

2 images were recorded in the USA by land travel from east to west and north to south boundaries

3 over 800 files generated

4-5 towers are generally oriented along elevated sight line reckoning with triangulation to other towers via python implementation

6-8 wavelengths of 10-1000m and frequencies of 450-2700 MHz are characteristic of radio frequency energies (sub infrared and sub visible spectrum). Though these energies are not enough to ionize (break chemical bonds) there is increasing evidence that these energies communicate more than just the visible and auditory data we use them for.

9-10 There are numerous sources of EMF disruption and distortion. Any energy source from a cardiac implant to the sun generates EMFs and the interference patterns are dynamic. The transmission patterns from cell towers can vary (“orthongal frequency division multiplexing”) and software is used to encode a meaning humans can appreciate. These image captures also use software to encode meaning to appreciate.

11-12 The same physical properties of energy and mass interactions that effect biological entities also effect non biological beings.

13 Average cost to construct a cell tower in the USA is $150,000- $200,000

14-16 Humans have seeded the earth with many types of inorganic manufactured objects. These objects are our constant companions with which we have co-evolved.

17 Humans have planted earth objects on other celestial objects, primarily on moons, planets, asteroids, and a star which we have not visited. These plantings will be there to greet us if we arrive.

18 Organic and inorganic objects require the energy of various EMF waves to enable their existence.

19-20 Reality does not change. Our perception of reality changes.

21-22 What we perceive as Being now includes the non-biological, that’s why we talk to objects.