LXD-Refracted

Combining manipulated satellite imagery with sonified data sets, this limited Refraction edition of LXD-1, LXD-Refracted, reimagines layers of complicity and non-compliance implied in surveillance, data extraction, and climate breakdown. The interactive, asynchronous convergence of audio-visual layers, when fully activated, begins to invoke the sensation of an accelerated lifetime’s planetary flux.

Using data sets commencing from the artist’s year of birth sonified with custom tools developed by the artist and accompanied by deliberately decimated images, can you decipher the territory implied by the (refracted) map? Beckoning viewers to confront their role in a world increasingly dependent on inscrutable data flows while undergoing profound ecological transformation, LXD invokes the intersection of individual agency and collective responsibility amidst the ceaseless flux of our shared biosphere and the emerging technological systems reshaping it — with or without our consent.

Constructed with Sonification Tools developed by the artist for Manifest Audio: https://manifest.audio

Hover over the piece to reveal the control menu. Click the play button to start audio and video, click circular layer toggles to interact, and explore the layers within. Best viewed on desktop using a Chrome-based browser.

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