My thesis at Ringling College of Art and Design’s BA Visual Studies program explores the ideas of perception and scale. I designed and produced the audiovisual piece, “Signals” for the dome.

The universe speaks to us in waveforms—sight and sound are received as electromagnetic waves and physical vibrations, and sent as signals to the brain, where they form an experience. But on the cosmic scale, we are transient. What then, is the value of what we experience?

While the signals we emit will not last, the signals we receive are as much a part of the universe as galaxies light-years away. We are receptors of the signals of the universe, and no signal is too faint to be significant.

The dome is an inherently immersive format, creating an experience for the audience. “Signals” takes the viewer through 3 abstract environments with accompanying soundscapes, allowing them to determine the value of the experience of these vast abstract environments, even when they are revealed to be smaller parts of a whole.