photo:sonic presents photography abstracted and translated into soundscapes. As part of this process, images from the photism series have been scanned using synthetic vision software; and the tonal and spatial information of each photograph interpolated into frequency. These transitions into sound are dependent on the information contained on the photographs’ surface. Individual sound files generated for each image, are assembled to form the basis for the soundscapes. The process of scanning images and converting them into sound is known as visual prothesis. It enables people without vision to engage with the photograph and the moving image. Translating photographs into sound highlights photographs as information surfaces. photo:sonic shifts the significance of the photograph as object, by transposing its value to the information contained on the photograph’s surface.This is symbolic for the transitions we are making in contemporary culture.
Exhibitions:
2006 photofugue: solo exhibition, SASA Gallery, Adelaide, Australia