With the help of the mobile app Kirlian Device mobile, designer Luis Hernan, an Architecture and Interaction PhD at UK’s Newcastle University, captures long exposure photos that are both ghostly and extraordinarily colorful in an attempt to create a visible representation of this WiFi signals of the technology that surrounds us every day.
"This project came about as design discourse on digital technologies, and the invisible infrastructure underpinning it," he explained via his website. "I believe our interaction with this landscape of electromagnetic signals, described by Anthony Dunne as Hertzian Space, can be characterised in the same terms as that with ghosts and spectra."
Hernan developed the Kirlian Device that, by no coincidence, is named after Russian engineer Semyon Kirlian, who mastered the art of Kirlian photography much to the excitement of the parapsychology world. The device exposes the quality of digital transfer protocols – such as WiFi networks, mobile phone networks, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC – translating the strength of these signals to colour LEDs, which are then captured with long exposure photographs.
"This project came about as design discourse on digital technologies, and the invisible infrastructure underpinning it," he explained via his website. "I believe our interaction with this landscape of electromagnetic signals, described by Anthony Dunne as Hertzian Space, can be characterised in the same terms as that with ghosts and spectra."
Hernan developed the Kirlian Device that, by no coincidence, is named after Russian engineer Semyon Kirlian, who mastered the art of Kirlian photography much to the excitement of the parapsychology world. The device exposes the quality of digital transfer protocols – such as WiFi networks, mobile phone networks, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC – translating the strength of these signals to colour LEDs, which are then captured with long exposure photographs.
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