Scott Jones

Rising interconnected complexity now requires us to be comfortable with noise. Learning to embrace complexity, illegibility and uncertainty could furnish us with the tools needed to navigate the wicked problems of the world.

My practice sits at the convergence of design, technology and science, investigating how surfing uncertainty might negate a subjugation of knowledge by examining the hidden artifacts and territories between the physical and the digital.

My work repurposes hidden by-products of technological and neurological processes and platforms – producing eye-burning, ear-splitting and chest-pounding combinations of images, sounds and haptics – of noise.

By tuning out what we think we understand, we can navigate noise together, flattening out preset behaviours and transforming the future into a horizon of possibility.

Utilising noise to imagine mindful digital public spaces.

You could say we are addicted to things, physical things, and digital things. The opposite to addiction is not sobriety though, it’s connection. Hemodynamic Disco allows users to resonate via cardiological rhythms, bypassing cognition and bias to create moments of synchronicity.

The work investigates empathy and openness in digital public space, producing resonances through visual, sonic and haptic outputs to create an immersive communal experience.

Each user wears a finger pulse monitor corresponding to a red, green or blue mark on screen, a component of a digital image. These chaotic marks are displayed over lidar scanned textures of the installation's location, images caught between the physical and the digital.

When resonance occurs, the signals turn to white light and produce an audible note, which over time builds into a harmonious sonic structure amplifying this resonance.

Conversations with electromagnetic waves.

Muxed Messages allows participants to receive sonic/vibrational signals from electromagnetic waves emitted from their own bodies and the surrounding environment. Their responses to these signals reveal their own particular personal presets when communicating with others.

When we see/hear rhythms within the 100ms - 2 second range, our sensorimotor system spontaneously entrains to it. We search for patterns in the illegible and the unknown, shifting how we receive, reorder and respond to noise in order to convert it to information.

Through post-performance discussions, embedded thoughts and values emerge during the process, uncovering preconceptions that form our world views.

The melodies were also converted to midi in order to investigate softer voices for the signals. The resultant pieces were published on vinyl record with an accompanying book.