Signal to Noise

Signal to Noise is a radio installation dealing with the concreteness of ideological discourses and the imaginary of the “Other”.

The minimal and non-visual set-up will be composed of two radio stations using the same frequency which intersect and neutralize into a virtual line crossing the space of the exhibition. By broadcasting simultaneously Radio Free Europe and Radio Romania re-worked programs running back then, the two transmissions will interfere and effectively jam each other. It is only when someone carrying mobile radios or receivers will come across the middle line formed by the two transmissions, that he/she will break the neutral point and it will become possible to hear fragments from of one of the two broadcasts. It is like being cached between two Logos (or two ideological positions), where beyond words, the ideological and media wars embody beings.

Far from being historical and contextual dated, the fluidity of radio (or “Hertzian”) space continues to be relevant today, in the age of wireless communication and coded information. Drawing invisible frontiers, building up on coded languages, are arsenals of producing and reiterating the “Other”.