Sounds of a human voice are emitted from devices placed around the exhibition area. The devices are equipped with a network of microphones and speakers which capture the murmurs of people in the building and then a few seconds later play them in a different space, continuously transferred elsewhere as output.
The input, transmission and output of information are taking place within the building. Audiences experience each of the aspects in its own part of the ongoing processes in the exhibition space. At the same time, in a separate Listening Room, viewers can take in sounds within the build ing and have an overall view of network connected by wireless interaction. The work is in the system representing the totality of the networked device interactions which arise in the space and conceptually lies in relation between the complex networked circuits and human relations being spread in the exhibition spaces.
Private whispers about the exhibit contents suddenly appear in another place. This piece is like the whispers in Twitter which are suddenly spread to others as a RT (Retweet, but not mediated by humans, however), with information being passed through the network to unexpected place enabling us to anticipate a new meaning and interpretation. Like a closed circuit in a building, the work represents a benediction of the world as one. Additionally, the whole system could be interpreted as an ‘Interface’ or mediating sensual layer between the exhibition spaces and the visitors, generating the self-organization of information similar to the neural networks. Private comments with little meaning reaching the ears of those beyond the space in which they were made can be compared to a surveillance system. However, the same system would become a bottom up ‘platform’ of visitors that anybody could actively participate by listening, from speaking to the system to opening up new circuit of (mis)communication beyond spatial distance and boundary of public/private. Here a new communication space is emerging by multi-layering the information that used to be considered as ‘miscommunication’. This work suggests the possibility of recreating the communicational method in the era of social media.
