The Imagination of Electroclimatic Matter: Between the Visual and Aural Poles of the Radioelectric Spectrum

Abstract

Since the turn of the millennium, many of us spend a significant amount of time in the virtual space generated by the networks and the electronic and audiovisual devices associated with telecommunication. The material composition of this system is so elusive that we can only characterize it using the image of the “cloud.” We present a body of work that seeks to glimpse or suggest some of its actual characteristics, employing techniques drawn from architecture and the visual and sound arts. We relate these exercises to the concept of electroclimate —drawing on what Bachelard calls the “imagination of matter”—and explore their visual and aural aspects (the perceptible fringes of the radio spectrum) through photography, digital graphics, video, and installations that emphasize experimentation with matter and sound.