DIGITAL BEING at "Silent Disco," Over than 60 CRT TVs, 2015
Supported by Grove Alley, Downtown Brooklyn, LES Ecology Center, Gowanus E-waste Warehouse, and Gowanus Nite Market
Visual art from Stickymonger
Media artist: Taezoo Park
DJs: Talib Kweli, DJ Beto, DJ Chela, and DJ Joro Boro
Digital Being: Silent Disco investigates the transformation of obsolete media into responsive technological environments within an emerging networked culture.
Presented in 2015 at Grove Alley in Downtown Brooklyn, prior to its later transformation, the work placed a series of stacked CRT televisions within a temporary urban environment, creating four independent DJ booths.
Each booth represented a different audio channel of the silent disco. Through wireless headphones, participants selected their own sound experience while sharing the same physical space. Within each CRT structure, Digital Beings responded to the rhythm and frequency of the music, translating invisible sound signals into visible movements on the screen.
Originally designed as devices for transmitting a shared broadcast signal, CRT televisions are reconfigured here as interactive entities within a networked environment. The work observes the transition from analog media infrastructures toward digital systems—where information becomes individualized, distributed, and continuously transformed.
Rather than functioning as passive displays, the CRTs become living interfaces connecting sound, computation, and human presence.
Digital Being: Silent Disco observes how obsolete technologies can enter new forms of existence—where signals become behavior, and machines become participants within a digital ecosystem.