interactive work of noelle marie fitzsimmons

Pain belongs to invisible geography with limited reality outside of the person experiencing it. To talk about pain, you have to circle it and describe the things around it. The communication of pain is not whole without its other, "positive space" or the "object." In spacial terms, it's negative; mutable, between, under, and around space. It must be shaped and reshaped by constructing its opposite. How can you describe thirst except to say there is no water? Elaine Scarry introduces possibly the aptest metaphor for the expression of pain, as "Unseeable classes of objects, such as subterranean plates and Seyfert galaxies, the pains occurring in other people's bodies flicker before the mind, then disappear. "Scarry reduces pain in the lives of others to speculation. There is an element of science fiction here, in that pain's reality can only be built upon by amplifying the most minor available bits of information and likening it to something similar through metaphor. Deep and objectless, remote and invisible, it evaporates before the mind of its other.

 Bill! I Love You So

An interactive video installation that responds with movement to both white noise in the gallery, as well as to the intentional sounds visitors project into the microphone. The more volume the plant "hears", the more rapid it's movement. The video is inspired by the theory that plants respond to the carbon dioxide produced in human speech, and that wind and vibration will induce changes in plant growth

White Water

An interactive sound responsive video that begins the size of a fist. The more noise it hears in the gallery, the larger it grows. The video reaches the size of the wall, before resetting.