Hard-Wired Wonderland - River Room

Site-specific Audio Visual Installation

 

Hard-Wired Wonderland @ riverroom is a site-specific installation developed for the opening exhibition at the Kiewit Luminarium, situated in the River Room on the second floor. Defined by expansive windows and a continuous visual relationship to the surrounding river landscape, the River Room became both the physical setting and conceptual framework for the work.

The installation responds directly to the architectural openness of the space and its dialogue with the natural environment beyond the glass. On the opening day, a storm—marked by heavy rain, thunder, and lightning—intensified this relationship, collapsing the boundary between interior exhibition space and exterior natural forces. Rather than functioning as a neutral backdrop, the environment asserted itself as an active presence, shaping perception, atmosphere, and meaning.

Through this encounter, the project reflects on nature not as scenery, but as a dynamic system that coexists with technological and cultural infrastructures. Hard-Wired Wonderland @ riverroom explores how built environments, sensory experience, and elemental forces intersect, inviting viewers to consider how artistic practice can remain porous to its surroundings. The work emerges from an attentiveness to place—where weather, architecture, and perception converge—proposing a practice that is responsive, situated, and deeply entangled with the conditions in which it exists.

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25 min generative loop