A Pig on a Zoom Call is a recorded zoom meeting between a pig and itself. Four devices placed in different areas of a pig’s den purposefully create feedback which captures the pig’s attention, who blindly becomes aware of itself through the audio feedback. This zoom call was intended as a performative experiment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Inspired by writings in media theory, this work engages with contemporary interactive technologies and the engineered closed-circuited feedback loops that dynamically engage participants and machines. Here, the pig is a participant interacting with itself, placed both inside and out of the machine. Audio feedback is created as the pig’s sounds speak back to the echo from the zoom interface. The echo creates infinite feedback, outlining the illusion of depth that is born out of the interactive mirror, where the body and the machine both mirror eachother, replacing eachother’s positionalities, an infinite amount of times. Acoustically, the feedback crescendoes from low to extremely high pitch, which further creates a communication between the pig and the machine, and itself. Here, the feedback acoustically demarcates the architectures of containment that contemporary technologies systemically contain within them. The pig is condemned to only repeat the ‘final syllables’ of its own bodily presence**.
** “In the [Ovid’s] Metamorphoses, Echo distracts and delays Juno with vapid prattling, buying time for Jove to cavort with the other nymphs. Enraged, the goddess takes away Echo’s ability to initiate speech and condemns her to repeat the final syllables of others’ words.”
I speak about this further in my essay The World as a Green Screen.
2 iPhones, 2 Macbooks, Zoom
Inspired by writings in media theory, this work engages with contemporary interactive technologies and the engineered closed-circuited feedback loops that dynamically engage participants and machines. Here, the pig is a participant interacting with itself, placed both inside and out of the machine. Audio feedback is created as the pig’s sounds speak back to the echo from the zoom interface. The echo creates infinite feedback, outlining the illusion of depth that is born out of the interactive mirror, where the body and the machine both mirror eachother, replacing eachother’s positionalities, an infinite amount of times. Acoustically, the feedback crescendoes from low to extremely high pitch, which further creates a communication between the pig and the machine, and itself. Here, the feedback acoustically demarcates the architectures of containment that contemporary technologies systemically contain within them. The pig is condemned to only repeat the ‘final syllables’ of its own bodily presence**.
** “In the [Ovid’s] Metamorphoses, Echo distracts and delays Juno with vapid prattling, buying time for Jove to cavort with the other nymphs. Enraged, the goddess takes away Echo’s ability to initiate speech and condemns her to repeat the final syllables of others’ words.”
I speak about this further in my essay The World as a Green Screen.
2 iPhones, 2 Macbooks, Zoom
2021
This work was shown at Pop Gun Gallery in New York City in November 2023.
This work was shown at Pop Gun Gallery in New York City in November 2023.
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