Hard-Wired Wonderland - Glow

Site-specific Audio Visual Installation

 

Hardwired Wonderland @ Glow Festival is a site-specific installation developed for Glow Festival. Installed within a black box environment, the work reimagines the spatial and perceptual conditions of the River Room at Kiewit Luminarium, translating its openness and environmental responsiveness into an interior, controlled setting.

In place of natural windows, multiple canvas surfaces function as constructed “windows,” forming a layered visual architecture within the darkened space. These canvases act as perceptual thresholds—interfaces through which sound becomes visible. Every sound generated within the installation is translated into two distinct visual representations, emphasizing duplication, divergence, and interpretation rather than one-to-one correspondence.

By reconstructing the River Room through artificial apertures and mediated perception, the installation explores how environments can be remembered, simulated, and reconfigured. Hardwired Wonderland positions sound as a generative force that produces parallel visual realities, inviting audiences to navigate a space where architecture, memory, and sensory translation are tightly interwoven.

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