A Shrine for Lost Data
Alex Lee Place

A shrine placed under the sky, open to the world so that human beings may gain absolution from the chaos of consciousness. Resonators form a circle around a central interface. A short path leads to the central interface. The resonators hum in a chorus of bell-like ringing, shifting in and out of different tones and timbres. The interface has touch sensitive markings that activate changes in the electronics connected to the resonators. Projected onto the resonators are compressed images and representations of data degrading and flickering in and out of Existence. Contact microphones, Tactile transducers, 3d printed materials, ceramics, bamboo, projected digital video, amplifiers.

 

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Alex Lee Place (b. 1991, Seattle) is an interdisciplinary artist fascinated by our human-centered understanding of the world, and the limits of that understanding. In order to experience our world, we often systematize, delimit, and remove concepts, feelings, or beings from their context. When we abstract our experiences and being into words, measure, or artistic representations, there is something lost, and that loss creates a distortion of the original. By acknowledging what is lost from memory, he invites viewers to confront the boundaries of objective thought, urging us to embrace context beyond familiar labels and Measure.



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