Ghostbox

Interactive sound installation exploring the quantum Observer Effect · Winner, MAB Spatial Media Art Student Award · Exhibited Vienna 2025 with ExMachinisMusicae

Ghostbox is a work in the medium of audio-visual experience within a constructed environment, an attempt to investigate the "Observer Effect" in the real world. The action takes place in a dark space filled with ten constantly powered, audio-modulated, red laser modules.

While the lasers are physically identical, the audio information they carry differs. This creates an entangled, amorphous audiovisual scape lending the space a patterned structure.

Although the structure appears uniform, it reveals its synthesised nature upon interaction: visitors wearing light-sensitive devices on both fists explore the layers of the soundscape through their body movements, interacting with the linear patterned space of laser beams. The devices receive the modulated laser rays, transmitting the information to speakers and making the rays audible inside the space.

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