June-July 2008
Hola,
I am currently in Merida Mexico in the Yucatan alongside my collaborator Alexandre Quessy. I am doing a residency at the FrontGround Artist Run Center and teaching at Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán (ESAY).
March 29th - April 27th 2008
I am currently doing a residency at the Western Front Society in Vancouver, British Columbia. The focus of the residency is on the research I have been doing called Ethereal Computing. If you are in Vancouver please come by for a visit! :)
Darsha Hewitt will work with experimental handmade electronics to develop an environmentally responsive sound installation specifically for the Western Front called DAEMON DETECTION. Hewitt will install sensing antennae throughout the building to detect changes in the surrounding electromagnetic fields. These shifts will create subtle audible emissions through transmitter radios that have specific lo-fi/low-tech sounds including white noise, frequency distortions, voices captured from broadcasts.
The artist will hold a workshop during her residency and invite the attendees to create one of these devices. She will also hold an artist talk on “Instrumental transcommunication,” which is a term used to describe communication between spirits and the living through any sort of electronic device such as tape recorders, fax machines, television sets, or computers.