Dept. of Rhythmanalysis: Dupage

This installation features a grid of 60 inter-connected control panels. Through labeled LED indicators, each yellow panel purports to monitor a different condition in the gallery, campus, or the world. Through some actual sensing and some fiction, each panel audibly switches at a distinct rhythm. Interspersed manual switches offer or deny the viewer a chance to influence these conditions, through turnkeys and dials. Some conditions are visibly and audibly interdependent, others autonomous and even questionably verifiable.

Conditions monitored include:

INHALE / EXHALE
LEFT FOOT / RIGHT FOOT
STATIONARY / MOVING
RESPONSIBLE / SENTIMENTAL
MARRIED / SINGLE
SILENT / SPEAKING
SKEPTICAL / CYNICAL
THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE / LIVING IN THE PRESENT
HOPEFUL / UTOPIAN
PRESENT / ABSENT
LEARNING / DULL
INTENTIONAL / CONTINGENT
EATING / NOT EATING
YOUNG / OLD
EYES OPEN / EYES SHUT
DEAF IN BOTH / DEAF IN ONE
LOOKING / LISTENING
IMPATIENT / COMPLACENT
ALIVE / DEAD
HEARTBEAT / PAUSE
PROCEED / STOP PAY TOLL
TIME MOVING QUICKLY / TIME MOVING SLOWLY
RACIALIZED / WHITE
WATCHED / IGNORED
MOTION / STILL
BIRD SINGING / BIRD SILENT
PLANE OVERHEAD / CLEAR SKIES
YOU'RE HERE / YOU'RE NOT
MOON WAXING / MOON WANING
BARBARA IS IN / BARBARA IS OUT
SUMMER IN GLEN ELLYN / SUMMER IN BUENOS AIRES
GAS BELOW 4/G / GAS ABOVE 4/G
WAR IN IRAN / WAR IN IRAQ
BORDER SECURE / NO BORDER
DEMOCRATIC WHITE HOUSE / REPUBLICAN WHITE HOUSE
IT WILL GET BETTER / ITS PRETTY BAD
DOOR OPEN / DOOR CLOSED
LONGING / CONTENT
TIME / SPACE
VISIBLE / INVISIBLE
CONSENSUS / AGITATION
EPHEMERAL / SPECTACULAR
RECEIVE / SEND
GOING / COMING
AVANT-GARDE / TERRORISM
VERSE / CHORUS
LISTENING / LOOKING
OBVIOUS / TRUE
CONTINUOUS / DISCONTINUOUS
WARY / DANGEROUS
COCK / SURE
FORM / CONTEXT
PRETTY / VACANT
POP / POLITICIZED
JUST / BROKEN