Dowsing the Wireless independent

Western media archaeology was influenced by the practices of mediums who explored invisible ethers, collaborating and inventing new ways to communicate wirelessly in the mid-19th and 20th centuries. They employed the body, fluids, electricity, craft, electromagnetism, radio, occult energies, and experimental science to channel connections with the cosmos, human and non-human entities, the weird, and the unknown. We will examine how these discrete, unfiltered energies began to manifest in the sonic realm, inviting otherworldly imaginaries and relationships through the act of listening.

The artworks of Claire Williams take the form of woven antennas, glass sculptures filled with plasma or devices that sense the invisible.Data of radio telescopes and scanners materialise themselves in knitted stitches, sound vibrations or through luminous plasma. She sculpts her electronic components to make visible the electromagnetic movements from the cosmos, through our magnetosphere, to radio waves that cross our terrestrial environment or the ones emanating from our bodies.She is currently working on the exploration of ether, at the cross roads of experimental and occult science practices. In this way she explores our relationship to the world of the invisible and their instruments by reviving abandoned leads of certain scientific and researches of the mid 19th century.