Drifting Signals, 2025
Interactive digital installation with webcam, wood frame, translucent fabric
Digital Signals (2025) is a projection within Battlebox’s bar that forms spectral silhouettes of people who enter the space. The webcam acts as a motion-sensor, tracking how people move and interact in the bar and capturing their participation with Void Resonance (2025) to create interdependencies between both works in the space.
In this work, the webcam is presented as the ‘bartender’ and symbolises a tool of surveillance–watching, listening and responding to the movement it detects through visual changes projected. The environment evokes an atmosphere of World War II espionage, highlighting the ongoing presence of surveillance in both historical and contemporary social environments. Emphasised by reproduction of wartime posters hung along the walls in the bar, the work suggests a form of behavioural censorship in a world where people are constantly watched and analysed.
These works explore surveillance and communication. Void Resonance (2025) transforms sound into visuals that mimic coded messages and wartime discretion, while Drifting Signals (2025) projects visitor silhouettes from tracked movements in the space. Together, these works evoke the atmosphere of World War II espionage, heightened by reproduction of wartime posters and emphasised by constant observation and a form of behavioural censorship in a world where actions are always watched and analysed.
This work was commissioned by Global Cultural Alliance(GCA) as part of the exhibition PORTALS, at Battlebox Singapore.
Produced by GCA, PORTALS is an innovative visual art exhibition bridging singapore’s wartime history with creative technology. Set within the battlebox, a former wwii command centre, portals is an exploration of technologies and systems as agents of change to reclaim power and place.
More infomation about PORTALS: cmdexe.art
Photographic documentation: Finbarr Fallon
