Exploring the intersection of spiritualism and technology at the dawn of the electrical age
The author describes Summerland, a generative installation for 24 computer-controlled telegraph sounders. This work uses texts from Samuel F.B. Morse and his contemporary, the Spiritualist medium Kate Fox, as source material, driving the sounders through both linguistic and spectral encoding of thei...
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MIT Press Journals
2019
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