Lost In Transmission

About

Consisting of works from over three years of Helton’s research on environmental transformation and fascination with basic image transmission using low-energy radio waves, and the mixed-media installation QSL, done in collaboration with Geistweidt, the exhibition utilizes radiofax, SSTV (slow-scan television), and HAM radio, to communicate and build data and images concerning time, communication, local weather patterns, and climate change.

About the artists

Lucy Helton
Lucy Helton is a visual artist whose fictitious and prophetic landscapes address contemporary environmental concerns by offering a sublime vision of the planet's uncertain future. Born in London, she received her master’s degree in fine art photography from Hartford Art School, CT, in 2014. Seeing visual arts as a means of engagement, Helton uses concept-specific technologies to image the relationship between human beings and the landscapes we inhabit. Gaining a HAM (amateur) radio license, she continues to test the boundaries of art and technology by making both long and short-range image transmissions. Helton’s books are collected by the Cleveland Institute of Art, MoMA, MET, Brooklyn Museum, Houston Center of Photography, Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the David M. Rubinstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, and the GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig, Germany, among others.
lucyhelton.com

Jason E Geistweidt

Jason E Geistweidt is a trans-disciplinary artist working at the nexus of music technology, physical computing, creative coding, networked systems, digital fabrication, interactive installation, and performance. Grounding his research is the use of purpose-built computational tools and systems for generating media via procedural, yet aleatoric or otherwise chance methodologies. Conceptually the work is playing with ideas of control, intention, and expectation within the creative process. His approach is experimental and works to interconnect disparate systems in a desire to make the intangible — data, networks, computation, and the like — tangible through their transduction into objects, events, and experiences. Dr. Geistweidt holds a PhD in Music Composition from the Sonic Arts Research Center (SARC), Queen’s University Belfast, as well as Master of Arts in Music Technology from the University of Limerick. He currently teaches in the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo, coordinating the activities of the Extensible Media Lab.
geistweidt.com