Fountain

LCD TV, pond mister, bucket, polyester film

Manning’s Fountain manually deconstructs digital displays with water droplets. Duchampian in title, an ultrasonic water vaborizor sits above a white screen, it emits a mist that condenses as waterdroplets on the screen—magnifying and manipulating the digital image to regress the display back to red, blue, and green pixels. These contrasting materials interact to conceive the liquidity of technology and data.

Fountain, 2016