to see the unseeable
Audiovisual Research Series | 2024
to see the unseeable is an audiovisual research series that explores electromagnetic fields as dynamic systems shaping perception, space, and material relations. Using electromagnetic field recordings and digital processes, the project translates imperceptible signals into sound and image, revealing invisible energetic structures embedded in everyday environments.
The series investigates the interaction between technological infrastructures and natural electromagnetic phenomena. Human-made electromagnetic fields generated by power lines, wireless networks, and electronic devices are recorded alongside electromagnetic activity produced by the earth, atmosphere, and living organisms. Rather than opposing the artificial and the organic, the work foregrounds their continuous feedback, interference, and coexistence.
Conceptually informed by cybernetic and systemic approaches to art, the project understands light, sound, and signal as interdependent elements within an open system. Perception emerges through modulation, feedback, and transformation rather than fixed representation, positioning the viewer within an active field of sensory exchange.
The work consists of four short audiovisual studies and can be presented as a four-channel video installation in a continuous loop, or as single-channel screenings. In an installation context, the distributed channels create a spatialized field of signals in which audiovisual events unfold asynchronously, emphasizing process, emergence, and non-linear perception.
By making electromagnetic environments perceptible, to see the unseeable proposes expanded sensing as both a poetic and critical method for engaging with the invisible forces that structure contemporary life.
Year: 2024
Format: Audiovisual research series / 4-channel video installation (loop)
Duration: 00:56–01:25 per channel (looped)
Medium: Electromagnetic field recordings, digital sound and image
Screenings:
ZEZ × KLET – 9th Sound Exhibition
11–13 December 2024
Studio-Gallery KLET, Zagreb (HR)
Waveforms #01 (Audiovisual Series)
27 February 2025
Richten25, Berlin (DE)
