metroequilibrium

Metroequilibrium is a sonic and visualization experience that explore responsive technologies in AI and Body tracking software. Installed as part of the Elements: In Art and Tech Exhibition on Governor’s Island as part of the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program in Nolan Park this Fall in New York City.

The installation creates a startling contrast in sonic experience between intense, urban sounds with jagged imagery to calming, human-based recordings. The still moments that capture sounds of breathing and vocalization create a reprieve within an overwhelming experience of chaos and disorientation. Using Jitter, the responsive light projections dissolve the performer's image, symbolizing the persistent din of daily urban life. The installation uses cameras and Google Media Pipe to create an audiovisual experience the heightens this overwhelming and frenetic encounter.

Upon entering the gallery, the projection displays an abstract array of lines and color accompanied by industrial and discordant soundscape. As the viewer engage with the installation, the performer’s silhouette emerges with sounds of human respiration and voices. As viewers activate the instrument, vibrant lines define the contours of the face, hands, and body which highlight the most active parts of the body. The resulting gestures form a live, improvisational performance with each unique engagement and reflects the unstable forces that have shaped our post-pandemic world, within which there are moments of recovery within this evolving visual soundscape.