Brett Balogh
ARITST STATEMENT:
NOOSPHERIUM
Since the inception of radio as a broadcast medium, the earth has been covered by an increasingly dense network of airborne communications. AM, FM, SW and other portions of the radio spectrum represent a medium through which a re-imaging of space is possible. This hertzian space is not defined by surveyed boundaries or geographic constraints but, rather, by field strengths, mass-media service areas, and consumer markets. The overlapping spaces defined by these broadcasts can be collectively referred to as an envelope of thought around the world, or Noosphere.
Noospherium aims to render this sphere of human thought as an immersive sonic environment, providing a pansonic, panoptic view of simultaneous broadcasts. The space of the installation can then be thought of as as a phrenologic observatory to this sphere of human thought where a real-time composition puts as many signals as possible into conversation within the space, allowing one to characterize the nature of our collective thoughts through chance occurrences, spurious juxtapositions, and the dynamic spatialization of sound.
BIO:
Brett received his MFA in Studio from the Department of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his B.A. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology, teaching courses in architecture, computer-aided design and manufacturing, do-it-yourself broadcasting and acoustics. He is a founding member of the experimental sound performance collective, Clairaudient and performs with the Chicago Phonographers. Brett is also a Free 103.9FM transmission artist, a member of the World Listening Project and the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology.
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