Resonant images
A Multimedia Installation for Video, Medical Equipment, Barrels, Transducers and 6.1 Channel Sound
In Collaboration with Maddie Butler and Cuyler Balanger
How do we communicate what cannot be seen? Doctors and patients engage with this question every day, translating physical and mental experience into shareable data. Resonant Images is an immersive installation that explores how medical imaging devices give form to bodily feeling. Bringing together moving image, sound and sculpture, this work unravels the complex relationships between technology, pain and the act of diagnosis. Using a variety of analog and digital technologies made to depict and/or penetrate the body (MRI, RED, 16mm, endoscope, geophone, electromagnetic microphones) the work explores how these devices convert body and feeling into data and diagnosis, and examines interiority, intimacy and medical procedures/technologies.
Made possible by the IDEAS grant & performed at Atkinson Hall in La Jolla, CA.