ALIASING is an ongoing exploration of imaginings of online space, mediated perception and digital identity. aliasingxaliasing is the newest implementation of the project, manifesting in an interactive work for two communicating virtual spaces.

The project explores aliasing both as being perceived – named – and as a discrepancy between what is perceived and the means by which it is perceived – what it means to wrap a thought in words and to be present with one another within technologically mediated collectives, as much as to capture a variably oscillating light source through the fixed frame rate of a camera.

The work was produced as a study for a larger upcoming work including a physical exhibition, and was shown during BROWSER SOUND 2023: LOCATION SHARING, presented both for an audience in person exploring the AR-app, and a remote audience accessing the browser app. Both of these experiences connect and mediate the perspectives of the work as seen by the other participants.

aliasingxaliasing was co-developed by Steffen Reichelt and Evelin Felix Lindberg in 2023, utilising smartphone-based mixed reality and webGL and featuring 59 sound files, 7 videos and several 3D models.

The project sets out to reflect upon the nature of digital media, and the collective imaginings surrounding them. The title is a kind of double entendre over the phenomenon called ‘aliasing’ in digital media and signal processing, and the word ‘alias’. The work expands on this in a poetics of the mirroring and endless reproduction of the individual as represented over the internet.

"Aliasing" in signal processing and related disciplines is a phenomenon that occurs as a result of a discrepancy between the recording or displaying medium and the represented signal or image - for example, that the retrieval of information is too slow in relation to the speed of what is to be captured, which causes us to hear information that is not there, or that we see waves in a fine-meshed pattern that is in fact completely straight. We often strive to erase these artefacts, even though they reveal a lot about the medium in which they live.
The project takes this as a departure point into questions on the human relationship to representation in the broadest sense, and the representation of the "self" and the very thoughts of a person in the face of the collective (and not least the individual's own parallel representations - aliases).

The first instalment of the work premiered in May 2022 in Oslo, and took shape as an installation, an interactive web-app and a digital archive of audiovisual works and texts.