i sat in the zoom room and wondered what you smell like, solo exhibition by Emily Dzieweczynski

You’re on mute. You froze. You’re cutting out. My connection is unstable. This feels secure. There’s a lot of space between us. I want to understand the space between us. I want to know what it means to be with you. I want to know what you think it means to be alive. What it means to live with each other, now. 

I want to know—who do you hope to be to each other?

The pandemic changed the ways in which we interact with and perceive one another. It reduced visceral sensory stimuli to pixels, altered experiences of space and time, and abstracted us in data. Some of us found solace in the screen, others found digitized dissonance. 

i sat in the zoom room and wondered what you smell like is a multimedia installation by Emily Dzieweczynski. Using sound and vibrations as input, a code visualized visitors as they interacted  in space. As they interacted, their presence was mapped across time—creating a web of reduced, pixelated interactions. 

In tandem with the exhibition, jazz noise group Shawty Ensemble held a performance on November 19.