Locked Loops – Sculptural Sound Installation with Image and Tree/ Multimediainstallation- 2025- In the Forest

Locked Loops explores the continuous, reciprocal relationship between technology and nature, emphasizing transitions, feedback, and emergent systems. The installation centers on a young tree growing from the cylinder of a broken chainsaw—a tool originally designed to control nature—which now becomes a site of regeneration. The sculpture rests on a rust-colored wooden box that functions as an acoustic resonance chamber. A print/image hybrid mounted nearby, combined with transducers, extends the sonic environment, producing digitally processed natural sounds that blend with industrial textures, creating a post-dualistic sound ecosystem.

Through granular synthesis, spectral manipulation, and sensor-driven interactions, natural and technological sounds intertwine, illustrating the emergent, intra-active interplay between organic and mechanical processes. Visitors experience a dynamic continuum in which sound mediates between object, image, space, and material, reflecting the permeability of natural and technological boundaries.

The installation is site-sensitive, unfolding differently in forest and industrial spaces, where the acoustic characteristics of the environment contribute to the composition. In this way, Locked Loops investigates how ecological and technological systems co-evolve, producing an immersive, hybrid experience that resists fixed categorizations of nature and machine.