My most recent body of work “Revival Machines,” is a series of installations that significantly
slows down technology and explores questions of time and temporality. LED and
fluorescent lights, digital clock radios, twenty-four hour analog and digital timers, are wrapped in
electrical tape, copper, lead free solder, cast latex paint, extension cords and various plastic
debris. Timers are left independent, or are daisy chained together to power up light bulbs and
media players for a brief interval — often only once during a twenty-four hour period. Alarm
clocks are set at random intervals, performing the same dynamic variability, powering up and
down seemingly spontaneously. (Smartphones and other screened devices occasionally make
an appearance, but are often obscured beyond immediate recognition.) Each device cycles on
and off, albeit briefly and never all together at once
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Revival Machine, Configuration 1, 2023, mixed media, dimensions variable
Among the various elements to this piece, there are two electric devices on timers, on plays audio recordings of chirping birds for ten minutes, once a day, the other is a media player that powers up 15 times per day, but only long enough to to display the menu screen.
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