Science fiction or a new reality?

The fact is societies hunger for technological advancement is fueling the changes and challenges for an ever increasing demand for advanced solutions to current imperfections.

The work before you takes a look at broadband and frequencies that permeate the very air we breathe, the spaces unseen that we take for granted. The current broadcast channels occupy a certain volume of space around a transmitter and receiver and everything in between. You can add more channels so long as you have available spectrum, but the amount of available spectrum is physically limited, this is not an engineering problem, it isn’t a technical limitation, it is a fundamental physical limitation of electromagnetic waves, with a finite amount of information you can broadcast in a given volume, add our cellular usage which is starting to approach that boundary and you reach a ceiling as early as 2014. It is unlikely we’ll have a solution by 2014 it is going to be decades before we will even have the science down to compete with this challenge.

Two emerging technologies however provide new promise to propel such trickery into new realms, by throwing conventional ideas about radio transmissions and broadband out of the window. The first involves multiple simultaneous transmissions on the same frequency; the second by contrast transmits on a huge range of frequencies at once. Outlandish as it seems the effect in both cases is to create hitherto unforeseen reserves of valuable bandwidth, practically out of thin air.

The very air we breathe!

Is it not then too far reaching to take from science fiction the idea that we will inevitably communicate in ways previously unknown, directly with one another using the spaces in-between and the very air itself, currently permeated with frequencies and code on a level never seen before.

The air we breathe and take for granted, the spaces in between our very molecules are filled with unseen “Pollutants” we could call energy, radio frequencies, broadband communications. The artwork is this visual representation of this future.