JUPITER SPACE de ESTELLE BENAZET HEUGENHAUSER et CINDY COUTANT aka L4BOUCHE
Dowsing in the wirelessness
Western media archaeology was influenced by the practices of mediums exploring the invisible ethers collaborating and inventing new ways to wirelessly communicate in the mid XIXth & XXth century using body's, fluids, electricity, craft, electromagnetism, radio, occult energies and experimental science to channel with the cosmos, human and non human entities, the weird and the unknown.
The 2nd part will be a hands on to do some ghost hunting in the invisibles : Delving in electronic hardware to channel, wire, communicate and interlace with our electromagnetic environment: listing to the discreet, the micro energies, interferences and channelling in our electronic circuits to sense, dream or hallucinate with them. How can techno feminist practices create alternative ways to think of our electromagnetic environment weaving with discreet invisible materialities ?
Wirlesse communication through the ether
"L'influence des planètes sur le corps humain", Franz Antoine Mesmer, 1766
"Un fluide physique subtil emplit l'univers, servant d'intermédiaire entre l'homme, la terre et les corps célestes, et entre les hommes eux-mêmes "
A subtile fluide fills the univers used as an intermediary between men, the earth and celestial bodies and between the men themselves"
Communicating
Piping in the atmosphère
Domestic Technology
Induction, static, energy harvesting, electromagnetic , electric, magnetic interactions with conductive bodies.
Body Machine
Sounds, electrical energies travelling voices through space
Part 2 /Ghost hunting in dead circuits
Loooking at induction techniques to tune or pipe in the conductive components and paths found on discarded hardware.
Sending in dead circuits small voltage and sounds to feed in some energy. By experimenting as we go, we can create small inducteurs: coils of conductive wire (copper or steel) or reuse on the board components such as inducteurs, speakers, antennas...
Inducteurs are made with conductive materials commonly used is copper. You can make coils flat or 3d, see if you want to reuse elements that have copper windings on your dead circuit board and connect them to a jack cable. But every wire or conductive element is in fact an inducter so explore with lengths, shapes, sizes to listen to the variations. You will also be picking up interferances, electricity and mirco voltages. Try grounding or not grounding your wires to see the differences.
Induction explained
Mutual induction
When two coils are brought in proximity to each other, the magnetic field in one of the coils tends to link with the other. This further leads to the generation of voltage in the second coil. This property of a coil which affects or changes the current and voltage in a secondary coil is called mutual inductance. source
Any moving charge creates a magnetic as well as electric field around it. So in electromagnetic induction when certain current is passed through conductor it creates a magnetic field around itself. And when any other conductor comes in the effective distance then this magnetic field acts on the electrons of that conductor and makes them flow(remember that either magnetic field should be time varying or you should be moving your 2nd conductor back and forth then only the charge will flow in 2nd conductor).
As we send in sound in our circuits we are actually sending electricity that varies and modulates. The electricity moves around the electrons that are in these conductive elements. This creates an electromagnetic field around our conductive material, component.
Our inducteur also made of condcutive material, enters the electromagnetic field (EMF) of the circuit and through the induction effect it will pick up the energy wirlessly of our moving electrons.
