Installations presented on 2024
Helios 2024
By Dan Tapper
January 14 to April 1, 2024. Open 10 am to 4 pm Thursday to Monday.
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario
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By Dan Tapper
January 14 to April 1, 2024. Open 10 am to 4 pm Thursday to Monday.
NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario
Pay by Donation
Helios 2024 is a celebration of the sun in its phase of solar maximum by audiovisual artist Dan Tapper. The exhibition gathers solar data from space organizations, as well as utilizing Tapper’s DIY devices that encode solar data into lo-fi playable records and reveal radio spectrum from the earth’s ionosphere and space.
The data captured ranges from realtime images captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to quantitative mappings of daily sunspots accessed as spreadsheets of data. These images and datasheets are analyzed to extract key information about the sun and to create virtual simulations of the sun alongside new sounds and images.
Tapper’s DIY devices capture a less cosmic radio soundscape. Coils of wire translating radio naturally produced by the earth’s ionosphere into clicks, crackles, pops and hums. This radio spectrum includes a clicking chorus of lightning from all around the world as well as the ionospheres interaction with the sun at high levels of solar activity.
Helios 2024, moves between directly representational sound and imagery of the sun and more abstract experimentation, this interplay lets us sit in a transient space, imaging and imagining the sun through meditative static.
The data captured ranges from realtime images captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to quantitative mappings of daily sunspots accessed as spreadsheets of data. These images and datasheets are analyzed to extract key information about the sun and to create virtual simulations of the sun alongside new sounds and images.
Tapper’s DIY devices capture a less cosmic radio soundscape. Coils of wire translating radio naturally produced by the earth’s ionosphere into clicks, crackles, pops and hums. This radio spectrum includes a clicking chorus of lightning from all around the world as well as the ionospheres interaction with the sun at high levels of solar activity.
Helios 2024, moves between directly representational sound and imagery of the sun and more abstract experimentation, this interplay lets us sit in a transient space, imaging and imagining the sun through meditative static.
Dan Tapper is an artist and creative technologist interested in the intersection between information and experience. His work focuses on the unseen and unheard, using radio and imaging technologies to capture the sounds of the earth’s ionosphere, map supernovas, and capture microscopic worlds. By utilizing elements of conceptual art and science in his work, Tapper draws attention to the unperceived wonders that surround us and the poetry that can be found in data.
STORY TREES (opus 3)
By Don Hill
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For laptop or desktop computer with webcam and Chrome browser
STORY TREES is an experimental series of interactive exhibitions of sound art & telepresence. In 2021 NAISA premiered Opus 1 of Story Trees for the Deep Wireless Festival and it featured interviews recorded in the 1970's with elders in Northern Ontario. Opus 3 of Story Trees uses field recordings mixed with ambient analog & synthetic audio sources. Similar to the previous iterations, Opus 3 uses the webcam and Chrome web browser on your computer to modulate and alter the sonic experience. Click Here to read more and to experience the piece.
Recordings & Interactive Design: Don & Anne Hill
Digital Coding Consultation: Kyle Elliot Mathewson
Responsive Architecture Consultation: Jim Ruxton
Produced with Support from the Canada Council for the Arts
By Don Hill
Click Here for Online Experience
For laptop or desktop computer with webcam and Chrome browser
STORY TREES is an experimental series of interactive exhibitions of sound art & telepresence. In 2021 NAISA premiered Opus 1 of Story Trees for the Deep Wireless Festival and it featured interviews recorded in the 1970's with elders in Northern Ontario. Opus 3 of Story Trees uses field recordings mixed with ambient analog & synthetic audio sources. Similar to the previous iterations, Opus 3 uses the webcam and Chrome web browser on your computer to modulate and alter the sonic experience. Click Here to read more and to experience the piece.
Recordings & Interactive Design: Don & Anne Hill
Digital Coding Consultation: Kyle Elliot Mathewson
Responsive Architecture Consultation: Jim Ruxton
Produced with Support from the Canada Council for the Arts
Don Hill is a sound artist & designer, writer, broadcaster, musician and interactive media producer, as well as a former national host of CBC Radio One’s Tapestry. His newest work STORY TREES is a modified ‘responsive architecture’ & interactive online exhibition. Don’s prior investigation of psychoacoustics of ‘place’ inspired his augmented reality app Edmonton Soundwalks, a 3D audio guide for mobile phones. Special Places: Writing-On- Stone is an immersive 360 video presentation that scales from full-dome screens to VR (virtual reality) headsets. In residency with the UK’s renowned Blast Theory he made WRGO (what’s really going on), a surreal 3D audio narrative.