Blooming radio waves

The ecological or post-anthropocene perspective starts from awareness of our current situation. One of the various artificial traces created by humans is radio waves. It creates so many waves, so we can tell that we live in the radio waves civilization. By creating a device that is sonifying this huge ecological footprint, we can recognize the shock that is not captured by our senses.

The project device has a flower-shaped antenna and a simple radio circuit. The antenna on the front receives radio waves around the device, like the recognition organ of a living organism. The detected signal passes through a radio circuit and is converted into a sound that audiences can hear. Through this signal, the audiences can recognize the footprints of the gigantic technological civilization that always exists around us.

Foldable structure (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

  • Sangbong Lee – Concept developing, Hardware design & programming, Production
  • Youngji Cho – Material research, Production