Spectral Choreographies: Electromagnetism after Conceptual Art

This article navigates between several conceptual artworks. The first is Robert Barry’s ‘0.5 Microcurie Radiation Installation’ – an object buried somewhere in New York’s Central Park since 1969. second Walter De Maria’s ‘Lightning Field’ installation, erected Mexico 1977. two artworks are separated by eight years and 2,200 miles. former concerned with electromagnetic transmission (or its lack), the latter reception potential). Between resides vastness of a non-ocular spectrum without which aesthetic experience, art, human communication would be impossible. lineage connecting them, as much physical it imaginary, explicated this alongside ideas about art artifactuality, present presented our series Spectral Choreographies.