Ubiquitous Noise
Ubiquitous Noise
by Guillem Serrahima
Ubiquitous Noise
Video • 16:49 • USA, Spain • English
All bodies resonate at a certain frequency.Ubiquitous Noise is an audiovisual installation exploring electromagnetism and the noise-ecologies it generates across sensory experience and scientific knowledge. Imperceptible yet pervasive, electromagnetic noise increasingly shapes everyday life. Built around recordings made with a custom-built antenna and sonified scientific data, the film unfolds as a multi-scalar journey through astronomical, neural, natural and technical signals: radio telescopes listening for extraterrestrial frequencies in the Radio Quiet Zone, where an electro-sensitive community seeks refuge; MRI machines imaging the brain at a minute scale; and the bodies and infrastructures of an electromagnetically saturated city.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Guillem Serrahima (he/him) (Barcelona, 1988) is a filmmaker and researcher whose work spans media theory, the philosophy of technology and audiovisual practice, exploring the materiality of computing, sensory devices, techno-ecology, and the epistemic and aesthetic entanglements between bodies, technical instruments and the production of knowledge. He holds a PhD from the University of Paris 8, specialising in the history of cybernetics and vision machines, and has been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at various art and media schools. His latest film, Ubiquitous Noise (2026), was developed during an S+T+Arts residency.
