ArtMelt | Louisiana State Museum
660 N. 4th. St.
Baton Rouge, LA
[Printed Canvas, variable dimensions]
“Etymologically, the term noise refers to states of aggression, alarm and powerful sound phenomena in nature (‘rauschen’), such as storm, thunder and the roaring sea. Moreover, when noise is explored within a social context or in art, the term is often used as a figure of speech, and possesses many more meanings. Sometimes, noise stands for unaccepted sounds; for that which is not music, not valid information, or is not a message. Noise can also stand for an (often undesirable, unwanted, other and unordered) disturbance, or a break or addition within the linear transmission of useful data.” (Menkman, R., 2011).
Noises are beautiful, fleeting moments of technological failure captured as screenshots and printed in canvas.
