Femke Herregraven's Dialect is an installation where machines speak in invented languages and respond to live environmental data. We designed the entire audiovisual infrastructure; our smls. hardware is not hidden backstage here, it is part of the work itself.
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DIALECT (14 September 2024 to 23 February 2025), curated by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk, turned RADIUS into a space that learns its own language. Femke Herregraven’s installation explores how breathing, voice and noise might resist the transactional language of finance, with machines that speak in invented languages and respond to live environmental data.
We designed the complete AV infrastructure for the 1919 reservoir beneath the Delft water tower: large-format projection between its concrete arches, multichannel sound and the computing that runs the work. At the heart of it, a vitrine holds the smls. system itself, placing the machine that generates the language inside the exhibition.
Photos: Gunnar Meier
