Brett Ian Balogh is an artist working at the intersection of objects, sounds and spaces. His current practice employs sound, radio and digital fabrication technologies to re-imagine traditional notions of space and our placement within. Central to his practice is the idea of model making. As humans, we build mental models of objects, their properties and their possible interactions. Model building creates a layer of abstraction between us and the world. This layer is a liminal space between object and image, atoms and bits, landscapes and maps, and sounds and signals. It is in this layer that sounds can become mountains, and radio broadcasts maps. The use of digital technologies in concert with traditional modes of representation and construction can afford unique cross-overs between the real and intangible that represent models of other possible worlds.

Brett is currently intrigued by the idea of broadcast media (sound and radio) as territory. When we begin to speak, make noise or transmit, the boundary that represent our selves expands, covering an even larger territory. What happens when we colonize other territories? How do the boundaries we create for ourselves compare or contrast to those of others? Can we create other possible worlds through the use of broadcast media? To attempt to answer these questions, Brett has been recently working on projects such as transmission-based sculptures that sonify environmental data and broadcast over low-power FM radio, allowing the environment to speak for itself as well as a book of maps that re-envisions the boundaries of the United States in terms of it's mass-media broadcast contours from data provided by the FCC.

Brett is also working on prototypes of a programmable transmission arts platform for use by artists and makers. The aim is to lower the technological barrier to the medium of transmission art by providing an easy-to-use and flexible tool that interfaces with the modern do-it-yourself community. Brett is exploring the use of such a platform in the creation of multi-channel sound works and interventionist performances.