Electrosmog Toronto
Jean-Pierre Aubé and his team will collect, document and record radiofrequencies, revealing thousands of emissions from personal communications systems, security, commercial beacons and satellites. Their interventions will provide the audience with means of grasping the electronic smog that envelops the city, making it perceptible by using the sounds and images generated by the spectrum. The set-up, which will include projectors, lasers, computers, antennas and receivers installed on-site give the impression of technological tinkering. It demystifies the sophisticated nature of electronic communications presented by large companies and the risks of piracy that are implied. His project revolves around a double observation that although wireless communication tools are lightweight, thin and easy to use, they require an enormous infrastructure. Despite the supposed complexity of a technological world in perpetual progress, an artist, with his little team in the field, like ham radio operators, can venture into the smog of the city to capture a reality that is invisible, but nonetheless present and consequential in everyone's lives.
