Signal Architecture
Roman Susan Gallery
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
July 22, 2025 - July 27, 2025
We rely upon an immaterial and ever-present architecture of signal traffic beyond our senses. Communication networks, power infrastructures, surveillance grids, data centers - all linked through a shared energetic substrate of 60 Hz.
Signal Architecture reveals hidden electromagnetic and seismic languages in the built environment.
Low-frequency (ELF/VLF) electromagnetic (EM) waves—particularly those generated by nearby urban infrastructure, like grid-powered devices, converters, and CTA trains—are the raw material of this installation, drawn closer by a copper wire loop antenna.
This EM signal will act as the carrier, and will be modulated in real-time by architectural vibration taken by a geophonic microphone on the station’s structure.
Signal Architecture produces a living sonic field transforming container into transceiver.
This installation will be most active as trains at the nearby station come and go.
https://romansusan.org/Signal-Architecture
1224 W Loyola Ave, Chicago IL
July 22, 2025 - July 27, 2025
We rely upon an immaterial and ever-present architecture of signal traffic beyond our senses. Communication networks, power infrastructures, surveillance grids, data centers - all linked through a shared energetic substrate of 60 Hz.
Signal Architecture reveals hidden electromagnetic and seismic languages in the built environment.
Low-frequency (ELF/VLF) electromagnetic (EM) waves—particularly those generated by nearby urban infrastructure, like grid-powered devices, converters, and CTA trains—are the raw material of this installation, drawn closer by a copper wire loop antenna.
This EM signal will act as the carrier, and will be modulated in real-time by architectural vibration taken by a geophonic microphone on the station’s structure.
Signal Architecture produces a living sonic field transforming container into transceiver.
This installation will be most active as trains at the nearby station come and go.
https://romansusan.org/Signal-Architecture
