Atmospheres are an ecological mixture of visible and invisible phenomena. Actors, like Birds, produce noise and heat. Their presence, while often hidden, is felt. This site, Fort Tilden, remains churning, full of life, full of noise, a migratory stop between nations for aerial beings of all scales. Airplanes migrate from airport to airport and ingest birds along the way. Geostationary Satellites observe the precipitation of the North Atlantic.
This project observes the site in all ways except visual and seeks to protect birds by diverting incoming planes. That which is invisible is recorded in a series of microphones, radar screens and thermal imaging sensors and conveyed as raw data to a series of projection galleries. Here the data is exhibited in its raw form as frequencies and heat signatures, located within the bounds of the site and as a flattened sandwich of all aerial objects, satellites, planes, birds.
Hardly Invisible strives to portray the complexity of nature as a paired digital and analog experience all while maintaining a minimal footprint on the site itself. The drawings represent experimental analog techniques, stamping and screen printing, which are meant to capture the loose fuzz through which radar interprets the world.
