Spectraphone

SPECTRA SHELTER (2023 – 2024) was a wandering techno-feminist shelter experimenting with (dys)functional ways of creating weird circuits using electricity, bodies, fluids, electromagnetism, chaotic sounds and magical codes. Re-appropriating tools and wireless communications, to short circuit patriarchal and neo-liberal technologies.

Le Spectraphone/ est un dispositif de communication atmosphérique inspiré du photophone de A. G Bell. Ce système se nourris des photons et d’ondes électromagnétiques qu’irradie notre soleil pour y insérer nos messages, textes et sonorités multi-espèces. En dérivant cette énergie solaire à l’aide de miroirs, corps, amplificateurs et hauts parleurs, nous nous tissons dans les micros énergies et vibrations qui peuple notre planète. Ces para-communications révèlent les sonorités discrètes, faibles, oubliés, invisibles, inefficaces et indéfinis qui s’altèrent avec la lumière, les ombres et l’air des mouvements atmosphériques.

A. Grahm Bell photophone 18180

RX/TX

Mia reading a poem, directly modulating the voice through the sun ray that is directed on the solar pannel

SSTV encoding an image in a sound and transmitting it through the sun light beam of the spectraphone and demodulating it

sending hidden images and texts in radio waves using the spectraphone. Here is what you recived with your sdr radio scanner

Documentation

Forest Mims notebook

More files here

spectraphone schematics pdf

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A bit about us..

AV-net​ (no pronoun)​ is a technical and logistical rescue team for infra-structural, service-oriented and life urgencies.

Claire Williams​ (she/her)​ [http://www.xxx-clairewilliams-xxx.com/] creates sound and electronic installations exploring the electromagnetic spectrum and energies in our environments. She also digs in the archives of the 19th century with The Æthers, a co constructed space that explors the relationships women in western societies have with the invisible and tries to reactivate these abandoned experimental and occult science practices.

xm ​(agender or we)is a technofeminist host which serves ooooo [www.ooooo.be], a transuniversal constellation, intentionally with feminist pedagogies and affective infrastructures by developing interfaces, devices \& protocols. xm will squeeze, receive and transmit some signals with us during the work session.