Victoria Hertel with Justin Ong
Iron oxide infused glass vessels, radar sensors, custom printed circuit boards, LED filaments, vibration motors, sound waves, water, currents
Dimensions variable
darkmode/lightmode explores how technology perceives and responds to environments through sensors. Contrasting human and technological sensing, the work prompts interactions between bodies, spaces, and other presences. Switching states in response to environmental stimuli, the work consists of two co‑existing interfaces: one activated by presence, engaging in a communicative act of mutual sensing; the other triggered by absence, shifting into a state of auto-responsive rhythms and internal logics across the vessel network, asserting a form of circuit-driven agency. Sensing becomes a shared, slowed, and communicative act, forming a moment of awareness across biological, spatial, and technological networks.