TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE
Involuntary Reception
Lucas writes:"Involuntary Reception is a double-imaged, double-edged report from a young woman contaminated with an EPF (electro-magnetic pulse field) that pegs the needle. Lucas' character has a story to tell, though paradoxically the conventional tools that she would use to convey her story would be instantaneously canceled by her surging EPF. She is forced to self-broadcast, and fortunately she is so in tune with the medium that she is able to do this without the need for hardware.
Quarantined from physical contact and yet always at risk of contamination, we are clued in that the mutant life is one of isolation. Lucas' character is both 'out of control' and 'outside of ' the influence of dominant control systems. She is vulnerable, unruly, and powerful––she is afraid to swim, she accidentally electrocutes a cat, and she erases computer chips.
Excerpt from Involuntary Reception
transcript:There’re so many problems in office buildings that the kinds of problems that I’m creating are not as easily detectable. But you can only last so long in a place like that before people start pointing the finger. I don’t jive with this new electronic stuff. Presents a lot of problems for me. Well, for instance computers freezing …short-circuits …a lot of problems like that. A lot of times I just plain old erase the chip and the machine doesn’t work anymore. I mean, you can rewrite the chip and the chip will still work, but I’ll just erase it again.
This video was produced with the support of the Andrea Frank Foundation and artist residencies at The Experimental Television Center and Wexner Center for the Arts' Art & Technology program.