CIRCUITOS HÍBRIDOS

Interactive textile and sound installation. Mixed media. Handmade black fiber threads, handmade electrical circuits, physical computing (Arduino hardware, processing, and Pd software), 2007

Upon entering the gallery, visitors hear the sounds of the street they have just left behind. Reproduced through speakers positioned at the threshold between two rooms, these sounds render the boundary between the city and the exhibition space temporarily permeable.

Inside, a large loom-like structure holds an expanse of handmade black fibre threads. Transverse threads are tied across the warp, recalling the spacing cords traditionally used to organise threads on a loom. By pulling them, visitors activate an acoustic circuit concealed within the installation. The tactile gesture extends into sound, releasing voices that recount places, journeys, and personal memories narrated by inhabitants of Santiago.

The installation connects the physical structure of weaving with an electronic system of recorded and programmed information. Individual accounts become interwoven into a shifting acoustic map of the city, activated through the movements of each visitor. Textile, digital, and personal narratives converge in a spatial work that considers how a place may be recorded not only through cartographic representation, but also through gestures, voices, and embodied recollection.

View at Galeria Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile, 2007.