Home Electronics
Interactive exhibition at Wesleyan University’s Archive Gallery
Fall 2025
Home Electronics is a wifi-based interactive installation comprising five networked devices — four light-based objects and a live video system — coordinated through a Node-red routing environment and communicating via OSC and WebSocket protocols.
Audience members connect to a shared local network and manipulate the work in real time through a browser-based remote interface.
The work takes changeability as both its formal and conceptual center: the capacity to shift color, light, and mood from moment to moment proposes that designed objects might attune to the rhythmic, non-linear temporality of lived experience rather than “fix it.”
Drawing on feminist new media theory — particularly the tension between DIY/maker culture and a feminine mode of knowing that is speculative, embodied, and contextually responsive — the piece asks what it means to design one's own domestic technology from the inside out.
All five elements (4 lamps and the “television”) can be controlled individually or collectively via remote control website.
On opening night, over 20 people changed the colors at once (the most recent update wins).
On opening night, over 20 people changed the colors at once (the most recent update wins).
A “color sync” button syncs the color of the LEDs with that of the TV screen (if you’re in the mood for it).
The digital infrastructure (Arduino microcontrollers, Node-red, OSC messaging) is understood as a kind of masculine scaffolding: the container that holds; while the forms the objects take, and the interactions they afford, reach toward something more fluid, more open to revision.
