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The Æthers is a project that questions our relationship to the invisible though a media archaeology of scientific instruments. Anchored in the research leaded by the scientific community of the 19th century, that was often nourished by parallel and occult science practices. This project aims to make the density of emptiness through which we communicate perceptible.
This environment that some may call “ether” or others “fluids” or “bodies” are woven by forces, fluids and waves that come from animated or inanimate beings: cosmic rays, human thoughts, vital fluids, mediumnistic energy's or the voices of the dead..to which we can add our modern telecommunications such as satellites, WiFi signals, radio waves and telephone conversations.

Ondoscope is a device that reassembles and reactivates schematics and concepts of several experimental scientists of mid 19th century whose ambitions were to detect mystical fluids and magnetic forces that were contained in the ether. Ondoscope is an installation that materialises in real time the electromagnetic variations of the exhibition space. A radio scanner scans the space searching for our electromagnetic ghosts. A computer code translates these fluxes in mechanical vibrations, made visible through 8 strings that are modulated by the intensity and nature of these waves. An eye hole invites the spectator to look through and perceive minuscule etheric vibrations revealed in the air.