Approach
The field waits.
FOR ANYONE STILL OUT THERE
Contact becomes signal. Signal becomes evidence.
The Work
A room-sized system where one act of contact creates a living broadcast.
The First Body receives the viewer. Thirteen transmissions interpret the signal. Collector-held cubes receive it beyond the room.
The work is not a loop or a fixed file. It is a state: waiting, activated, transmitted, confirmed, then returned to rest.
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The First Body
13
The Thirteen Transmissions
many
The Listening Posts
The Ritual
A human act starts the system.
Contact
A viewer reaches the First Body.
Signal
The system forms a broadcast state.
Transmission
Thirteen pillars translate it.
Reception
Remote cubes receive it and answer.
Decay
The room returns to rest.
The First Body
The First Body turns presence into transmission.
A monolithic origin object with a sensing surface, suspended chamber, signal core, and proximity field. It makes contact feel consequential.
- sensing surface
- suspended chamber
- signal core
- proximity field
- broadcast state
- black body / smoked glass / lens / light
suspended chamber
signal core
sensing surface
broadcast state
The Thirteen Transmissions
Thirteen pillars translate one signal into thirteen variations.
Arranged around the First Body, the six-foot LED pillars form the local field: image, light, motion, sound, distortion, and delay.
Synchronized, but never identical.
six-foot rectangular LED pillars
integrated sound
floor-to-top display surface
full-height signal image
vertical light body
individual response state
networked synchronization
The Listening Posts
The cubes are receivers, not replicas.
Collector-held constellation units receive the active state from elsewhere. Each one becomes proof that the signal traveled.
When a unit receives a transmission, its holder can confirm: “I am still out here.” That confirmation returns to the system.
- cube display object
- live signal state
- holder confirmation
- ambient screen behavior
- low light object
- status / pulse / image field
- editioned but alive
The Signal
The signal is the current condition of the work.
It begins with contact, moves through the local field, reaches the constellation units, and waits for confirmation.
Every activation produces a different state.
- First Body
- Waiting
- Thirteen Transmissions
- Low field
- Listening Posts
- Listening
- Signal State
- Waiting
Waiting
low light / quiet field / no active broadcast
Contact
human presence enters the system
Broadcast
the First Body sends the signal outward
Memory
the signal decays until the next activation
Ethereum Layer
Ethereum records that contact happened.
The room sends events to a public transmission layer: interaction, generated image, broadcast, receipt, and confirmation.
When we are gone, Ethereum may still hold the proof that someone reached forward and someone answered.
Interaction
the First Body records contact
Transmission
the generated state is sent outward
Receipt
constellation units receive the signal
Confirmation
holders answer: “I am still out here”
Return
the confirmation re-enters the work
System Overview
Origin. Field. Receivers. State.
The First Body
The Thirteen Transmissions
The Listening Posts
The Signal
ethereum event log
interaction records
transmission receipts
holder confirmations
bi-directional constellation
local installation controller
generative visual engine
offline resting state
The work chooses to send.
Contact.
Transmission.
Confirmation.
Decay.
A person reaches forward.
The First Body answers.
The field wakes.
The constellation answers back.