flagday (a particular kind of perceptiveness) (2026)

Interactive installation; mixed media (ESP32-based LoRa development boards, rotary encoders, piezoelectric buzzers, protoboard, wire, solder, antennas, 3D printed PLA and PET enclosures, lanyards, carabiners, score booklet)

If I find that composers are relying so heavily on methods, I begin to wonder if they’ve got that much to say. Of course, everybody has something to say but it could be so minimal that they can be drowned in their fascination with methods. – Miriam Gideon

flagday (a particular kind of perceptiveness) is an interactive conceptual art installation that explores the intersection of cruising, flagging, and other forms of queer semiotics, mesh networking technologies, and 20th century serialist composition methods. Using inexpensive, low-power technologies popular with preppers for “off-the-grid” messaging, you can communicate nonverbally using a fixed set of messages. Each device is enclosed in a case modeled after folded bandanas and has been programmed with a distinct ringtone. While each ringtone may sound quite different, it is nonetheless related to the rest of the ringtones on the other devices.

flagday (a particular kind of perceptiveness) opened at “sweeThe4rts”, a group gallery show at Common Objects in Seattle, Washington, on February 13, 2026. The score book for the installation was released as impr013.