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Signal to Noise
The Information Age is over. Signal to Noise explores how artists work with, challenge, or complicate the relationship between signals and noise—disruptions, glitches or interference—in communication technologies and the messages they send. These technologies include the internet, telephones, radio and television, artificial intelligence, social media algorithms, and even the sounds of the natural world.
Artists are the buzz in the radio, the data that brings AI to a glitching halt. Instead of seeing noise as something to block out, artists in the exhibition reframe noise as a signal in itself— an opportunity for creative engagement.
Through international artworks, new commissions and technology collections, the political, social, philosophical and aesthetic possibilities for noise are examined: revealing the limits of technology’s capacity to contain noise, while embracing the inevitable and productive friction noise makes possible.
CO-CURATOR
Joel Stern
Dr Joel Stern is a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
Joel Stern is a researcher, curator, and artist living in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Informed by a background in experimental music and sonic art, Stern’s work focuses on how practices of sound and listening inform and shape our contemporary worlds.