Waiting for YOUR Response
Waiting for your Response
2024
envelopes, ribbon, magnets, video projection of digital screenshots, mirrors, looped website posts, looped voicemail recordings, live audio
approximately 16 x 20 x 12 feet, dimensions variable
About the work
Waiting for your response (2024) is a media installation
approximately 16 x 20 x 12 feet that mixes communication attempts from the past
150 years—from 19th-century letters to 1980s answering machine messages to
present-day texts. The installation occupies a blacked-out or dimly lit space,
illuminated only by light from two projectors. Viewers engage with the object
portion of the installation by moving around an organic cluster of “return to
sender” letters suspended from the ceiling. A time-delayed and decaying live
audio stream of sound from the installation overlays voicemail clips from multiple
hidden speakers. The viewers’ physical presence disrupts the projections of a
fragmented grid of dissolving digital communications (online posts, text
messages) across the walls, floor, and ceiling.
These communication attempts are suspended in a timeless void, where the installation blurs the boundaries between live and recorded transmissions and physical and digital realities. This interplay prompts viewers to reflect on their connections across time and space, exposing a sense of disconnection even within attempts to connect.
While technology is often touted as a tool for building relationships, the installation underscores how it amplifies an overwhelming excess of missed or incomplete connections.
Through this work, I consider digital capitalism’s influence on communication, exploring how it exploits connections while eroding genuine interactions. In today’s Mixed Reality, digital and physical experiences inseparably intertwine. I am mindful of how technology shapes my connections with others. Waiting for Your Response is a reflective space where viewers can contemplate their mediated relationships and communications entangled across virtual and physical realities.
These communication attempts are suspended in a timeless void, where the installation blurs the boundaries between live and recorded transmissions and physical and digital realities. This interplay prompts viewers to reflect on their connections across time and space, exposing a sense of disconnection even within attempts to connect.
While technology is often touted as a tool for building relationships, the installation underscores how it amplifies an overwhelming excess of missed or incomplete connections.
Through this work, I consider digital capitalism’s influence on communication, exploring how it exploits connections while eroding genuine interactions. In today’s Mixed Reality, digital and physical experiences inseparably intertwine. I am mindful of how technology shapes my connections with others. Waiting for Your Response is a reflective space where viewers can contemplate their mediated relationships and communications entangled across virtual and physical realities.