2025
MATERIALS: brass horn antennas, RF amplifier, custom analogue circuitry, motor, tripod, sound system (6x).
EXHIBITION HISTORY: 21st WRO Media Art Biennale, WRO Art Center, Poland, May-June 2025

Scan is a kinetic sound installation that explores inaccessible phenomena from our immediate surroundings using advanced experimental detector technology, as an extension and exploration of human sensory and cognitive capacities.

Scan employs an array of six rotating detector systems that directionally capture and amplify signals in the microwave range. This part of the electromagnetic spectrum —a region densely populated by human technologies— is highly versatile supporting a wide variety of communication and observation; from everyday technology (such as mobile phones, bluetooth, wifi) to advanced scientific studies (such as satellite communication, radar, and radio astronomy).

The project is a continuation of Skjødt Hasselstrøm’s artistic research and work. Where previous works have focused natural phenomena such as electromagnetic energy (ÆTER, 2017), radiation from the Sun (The Receiver, 2019), and cosmic rays (μ, 2022 and Myriads, 2024), Scan examines phenomena in our immediate surroundings that are created by human beings.

 

 

Commissioned by EMAP – European Media Art Platform

Realized with support from EMAP, the Danish Arts Foundation, Danish Composers’ Society / KODA Culture and New Carlsberg Foundation

Special thanks to Dominika Kluszczyk and WRO Art Center, Søren Lyngsø Knudsen, Kristian Rasmussen, Søren Løkkegaard and Kaj Nielsen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos from the openening performance of 21th Media Art Biennale, WRO Art Center 2025. Credit: Wojciech Chrubasik

 

 

 

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