We are a Pattern

Hirshhorn Museum - Sound Scene 2025

“We are a Pattern” was exhibited at the Smithsonian’s Hirshorn Museum as part of Sound Scene Fest 2025.

The installation consisted of a music box which controlled a simulation a living, moving town. The interface for its drift was the graphic score that the audience could touch and distort. This piece in many ways was a continuation of a long standing series on graphic scores, conveyor belts and feedback loops (See Repetition in Error in Repetition, Schizoposting, Cartoon Blood, DollarStore Ouroboros).

Below is a short video documentary - exploring the installation in full:

This piece saught to create a system that recontextualized the group of people interacting with it as one system - as one pattern. Due to the fact that the means of interacting with it was limited, and that any real change in the system would have to be something collectively achieved by the effort of the entire group - my hope was that the emphasis would fall off the individual and more on a system of experience.

In previous projects I was really obsessed with the idea of exploring “Perpetual Abstraction” as a means of evading the typical, dualistic - subject object relationship with a piece. This piece utilized the same “shifting perspective” as a way to try and do the same thing.

Each of the assets in the world was custom created by me. I loved leaning into the glitchy nasty digital lo-fi style. These are all digital assets, they live in a computer- DO NOT FORGET THIS.