Presentation on Sunday, May 20, 2012, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. in the EDITH-RUSS-HAUS event room for media art with an introductory greeting at 12 p.m.
 

What does a television sound like and why can’t you make music with LCD screens?
For the Edith-Russ-Haus, Canadian artist Darsha Hewitt has created the installation Electrostatic Bell Choir, which uses the electrostatic charge of old cathode ray televisions with ironic poetry.
Switching the television on and off becomes the trigger for a “chime”, which is operated by the electrostatic charge of the screens. The result is a “quasi-melodic” choir in which the mechanical and electronic ages meet and old and new aesthetics try each other out.

Darsha Hewitt is developing the Electrostatic Bell Choir as part of the scholarship for media art from the Lower Saxony Foundation and the EDITH-RUSS House.

The EDITH-RUSS-HAUS would like to thank all those who made their televisions available for this project!

Subsequent exhibition of the project from May 22 to 28, 2012, Tue-Fri from 2 – 6 pm and Sat, Sun and Whit Monday 11 am – 6 pm in the Pulverturm am Schlosswall