Hot Shadow

2015

photovoltaic panels, powered speakers, projected video

In Hot Shadow, large-scale natural energy events (lightning storms filmed in Yogyakarta and Sydney) that have been recorded and stored as video are poetically reconstituted. The varying current produced by projecting video onto photovoltaic panels is input directly into a powered speaker (i.e., without the use of any kind of sound-producing electronics) and realised as sound.

Peter Blamey, Hot Shadow, installation view, NOW now festival exhibition, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Marrickville, NSW, January 2015.