Mark Cetila

Writings and Presentations:

• Title: Pulse Shape 22: Audiovisual Performance and Data Transmutation
  Writing Type: Paper
  Author(s):
  • Mark Cetila
  
  Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2016: Data Materialities
  Abstract Summary:

  Pulse Shape 22 is an improvisational audiovisual performance featuring shortwave radio transmissions as the sole source material for real-time audio processing alongside video of the sun projected through cast-glass lenses designed specifically for this piece. The structure of the piece is derived from metrics on energy accumulation over a period of 2.2 nanoseconds resulting from the targeting of 60 laser beams on a single tetrahedral hohlraum in weapons testing experiments as carried out by the Los Alamos Inertial Confinement Fusion unit, at the Omega Laser Facility at the University of Rochester. Pulse Shape 22 is an exploration of architectural space through the use of site- and time-specific information found in regions of the electromagnetic spectrum outside the reaches of the human
  sensory apparatus. It is an attempt to alter the audience’s perceptions of their surroundings and create
  a moment of rupture from hidden worlds found in our local environment.

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  • Author