Jules Gimbrone - Dark Fringe

"Dark Fringe'' is a new-media installation born from a year-long dialogue between astrophysicist Max Isi and visual/sonic artist Jules Gimbrone. Dark Fringe elucidates the conceptual continuity between specialized scientific analysis utilized by astrophysicists as they perceive and represent cosmic occurrences (i.e. the connections between the instruments sensing gravitational waves as an echo of black holes colliding billions of years ago) with the sensing potential and meaning-making of a body-in-flux. Drawing from Gimbrone’s artistic modality ‘Trans-Sensing’, parallels emerge between the quest for cosmic revelations and a form of transgender embodiment that actively seeks, and frequently senses, a dysmorphic ecstatic unknown. Conceived of as a three-room installation, the first room of Dark Fringe consists of a multi-channel audio piece sourced from the unwanted “noise” surrounding the instrument used to detect gravitational waves; four interferometers spaced in different locations throughout the world. Both as a measurement in audio production (i.e. signal-to-noise ratio), and in a variety of cross-disciplinary analytics, determining what is considered ‘noise’ versus what is considered “signal” is fundamental to assessing the values and beliefs of that system.This sonic detritus, composed of the rumbling of earthquakes, distortions and interferences from quantum, electronic, and thermal noise is used as material to create an immersive sonic experience. Through rendering the “noise” through a metric of composition choices, the noise is transformed into a thing of beauty that deserves and elicits a type of deep listening, thus rendering it into a “signal”.「Dark Fringe」は、天体物理学者マックス・イシと、視覚・音響アーティストのジュールズ・ギンブローンとのあいだで1年にわたって交わされた対話から生まれたニューメディア・インスタレーションである。この作品は、天体物理学者が宇宙の出来事を知覚し表象する際に用いる専門的な科学的分析——たとえば、数十億年前のブラックホールの衝突の残響として重力波を捉える観測装置のつながり——と、流動する身体がもつ感受と意味生成の潜在力とのあいだにある、概念的な連続性を明らかにする。ギンブローンの芸術的方法である「Trans-Sensing」を手がかりとして、宇宙的な啓示への探究と、能動的に探しもとめるトランスジェンダーの身体性のかたちとのあいだに、いくつもの並行関係が立ち現れる。