“Electroscapes” comprises an installation and series of experimental images generated from a modified digital processes that incorporates surveillance software and locative media. The works meld “datascapes” with natural scenery, and they reinterpret landscape by rendering visible the flow of electromagnetic frequencies that moves within, and around, remote geographic environments. How the ubiquitous yet invisible wireless activity in our culture expresses itself aesthetically and artistically on/in nature are the thematic cornerstones of Electroscapes.
The images in Electroscapes were created through a multistep process combining photography and data collection. Koroshegyi photographed the Columbia Ice Fields through coloured gels while simultaneously recording radio-frequency radiation emitted from tourists’ wireless devices using surveillance software and an electro-smog meter. This data was transformed into cartographic line drawings and merged with the tri-colour photographs. The variable and unpredictable wireless activity shaped the final images, resulting in installations that combine abstract digital foregrounds with scenic landscapes and question how we perceive the “natural” world.
The artist gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council.
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