untitled signal paths [2019]

untitled signal paths [2019] is an interactive installation/performance piece utilizing a room-sized audiovisual synthesizer. audience members interact with and disrupt the performance by using their bodies to complete circuits in the synthesizer, changing the audio and visuals around them. the piece was developed with the goal of addressing and contemplating violence as an act done by an audience to a work of art. its interactivity is built in to deal with the artist’s conception of a public as both destructive and formative to artworks. the artist creates a three hour performance without the audience, then watches as the audience simultaneously destroys and creates the piece.