Jackson Goode is an interdisciplinary artist and engineer interested in interpretation of digital experiences. Previous works have explored topics in telecommunications, sonification, found sound, and spatialization.
Artist Location: Long Beach, CA
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PARTICIPATION
cAPture
A lot of the activity that enables modern society is often quiet, it resides in our pockets and might only buzz or ping us if we allow it. What happens inside these devices is a constant flurry of networked activity that, unless you were an engineer listening into the network traffic, you would never be able to see. Additionally, much of this data provides a unique glimpse of a device’s activity, the sources it visits, as well as it’s location and behavior.
cAPture is a project that sonifies this networked data to the devices that are connected to it’s access point. Participants are encouraged to connect to the installation’s wireless access point that puts to sound how talkative a device is, even admist little to no interaction. With many devices connected simultaneously, the sonic experience can unfold into both a saturated network and waterfall of sound.
Installation:
Cacophony is an immersive sound installation that attempts to capture the inundation of modern media hosting platforms through their traversal. Sites like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, among others, provide users with virtually boundless and aggressively curated content. Though thought of as visual platforms, sound holds arguably equal weight in the luring of users to their hosted content. Through the programmatic collection and extraction of media, sounds once bound by the frame of moving images are played out of place and time. This siphoning of audio from these clips occurs in real time and is hemmed by restrictions both from the network and media host. Simultaneously, thumbnails from the videos are retrieved, projected and refracted across the local surroundings, further emphasizing the blurred boundaries of sound. “Cacophony” serves disjointed, aural moments from the navigation of these platforms to reflect on how they vie for our attention with often overwhelming consequences.