Becoming Signal Interactive Art Exhibition

Curator: MLitt Curatorial Practice – Hung-Yu Chen
Artists: BA Interaction Design – Blaise Treveton, Mikhail Nikolaev, Marco Azzolina, Celeste Guinchat

With the rapid advancement of technology, various disciplines have adopted new tools and approaches, sparking unprecedented creativity and collaborative possibilities. Cross-disciplinary connections have led to more diverse forms of creation and opened up new dimensions of interaction between humans and technology.

This exhibition explores how technology functions as an extension of human consciousness—no longer merely an extension of the body, but a medium through which we connect with and interpret the world.

Digital Machinery, 2025

Blaise Treveton

Interactive Installation

Processing, VCV RACK, Arduino

Digital Machinery explores fractured perception in a machine-mediated world. Random internet images, fragments of memory, are distorted beyond recognition, stripped of context. As visuals degrade, ambient sounds glitch and fragment, creating a landscape of decay.

The piece reflects on how digital media erodes meaning, turning images into noise and memory unstable. In the collapse, a fragile beauty emerges, asking what it means to see through malfunction.

Sunder, 2025

Mikhail Nikolaev

Audio Installation

Processing, Elecktron Model: Cycles, Audition

Our ears have evolved to be able to hear and recognise humans’ voices. For most of human history, we have lived in an oratory world, a world filled with sound and the murky and shapeless things that lurk within it. As writing and the printing press was invented our main sense became our eyes. Linear logic followed as time became constricted to a line being read. But electronic media is bringing back our oratory world, and thus our world is strange and murky again.

We live in shapeless times again. Hear and be heard.

BIkBx, 2025

Marco Azzolina

Video Installation

Processing, YOLO Image Detection

BLacK BoX is a reflection on the enigmatic nature of technology and Al.

Hidden inside familiar items, behind user-friendly and familiar interfaces, unknowable processes are run at inhuman speeds.

Have a look inside the box, can you understand what is going on? Should you?

Murmuur Machine, 2025

Celeste Guinchat

Interactive Installation

Processing, Arduino, Inkjet Printer

Murmuur Machine explores alternative ways of sharing thoughts and feelings. Imagining unfamiliar communication technology, it aims to use computers as a way to reflect on language.

By encrypting speech into an asemic language, messages are abstracted, transformed and preserved into text no one can read. Each message is printed to leave a physical trace; feel free to take the letter you recorded with you.

Curatorial Statement

Contemporary technology is no longer merely an extension of our sensations. As Marshall McLuhan stated, “All media are extensions of ourselves—psychic or physical.” The screens we look at, the interfaces we manipulate, and the machines that respond to us have all become part of human perception.

When we no longer simply observe the world through technology, but instead begin to construct our experiences with it, we enter what N. Katherine Hayles describes it as the “post-human condition”—a state in which human consciousness is regarded as a transferable and transportable data pattern, while the body becomes a temporary container for this data.

The exhibition Becoming Signal centres on this transformation. As humans interact with technology, we shift from being active users to becoming fluid nodes, becoming the signal itself. Through interactive installations, sonic art performance, and multi-channel screen displays, viewers are invited to navigate a space where translation, feedback, and displacement reshape the way we perceive ourselves.

About the Curator

Hung-Yu Chen (b. 2000, Taipei, Taiwan) is a Glasgow-based curator and techno-art practitioner. Her work investigates the intersection of technology and human consciousness, with a particular interest in how interactive media can function as extensions of perception and thought. Holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Technology from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2024), she has a background in new media art, immersive projection, and interactive installation.

Hung-Yu’s curatorial approach seeks to foster reflection on the evolving relationship between humans and technology through cross-disciplinary and participatory formats.

Becoming Signal Exhibition

Opening: 15th Jul 14:00-18:00

Exhibition: 16-18th Jul 10:00-17:00

Venue: Space 0-23, Stow Building, The Glasgow School of Art, 64 Shamrock Street, Glasgow, G4 9JZ

Documentary Video

Meet the Artists and the Curator