#cross modulation

Artwork: Stochastica: Crossmodulation

Artist: Yoshiyuki Abe

Year created: 2000

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This installation consists of a series of art pieces (106 in total) created by Yoshiyuki Abe, a Japanese digital artist famous for recording stochastic processes and using geometric shapes with different patterns in his works, collaborating with Igor Czerniawski. The collection was recorded from the different music played by the two sets of audio system through the process of cross modulation—when a receiver receive a signal from the more powerful transmitter that the weaker signal is disrupted. In this case, the loudest sound between the two was recorded thus producing these colorful graphics. The artist’s original idea of the collection is to present this age of information in a graphical way that we as receivers are overwhelmed by too much random information which are distracting us from the important signal. Just as the cross modulation shows, the receivers did not perceive concrete, clear images but were filled with abstract, stochastic graphics.

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http://www.digitalartmuseum.org/abe/stocross.htm