Title, PiPodium

This is a compound word that I made up. The first part of the word refers to one of the materials used in this
work: PVC pipes. |Pi| comes from pipe, also the number that I always used during the making of the work. Another important component is audio, hence the second part. Using the happy coincidence that |audio| sounds very much like |podium|, a Latin word whose root is Greek |podion| meaning base, the title appeared.

About the Work

This work started as a quest to investigate the contemporary city life, more particularly how communication takes place in our highly designed environments both on a physical, visible level, and on implied levels that we observe but have difficulty expressing because they are elusive.

The structure of the show is an abstraction of how I perceive communication takes place though vessels and these are expressed through the use of pipes that visually act as lines. This visual composition is a narration of hierarchy in highly designed spaces that citizens and non-citizens live and receive information. These spaces include the very city we live in, messages that we are exposed to through TV, radio, printed media and internet and what we are allowed to think of the world around us through the presentation of information. I often feel that the information that is supposed to empower us alienates us because of the way they are conveyed. To illustrate this, I created a Pseudo-English Language. The recordings of Pseudo-English are played in small devices that are traveling in six PVC pipes. These devices are called messengers and are controlled by motors through Programmable Logic Controller and a computer.

To view how it was made, click on Process. To view the show, click on Exhibition.