Victoria Keddie
Electrona in Crystallo Fluenti (40.7128° N, 74.0060° W)
November 02 – December 17, 2022
Fridman Gallery presents Electrona in Crystallo Fluenti (40.7128° N, 74.0060° W), a multichannel video and sound installation by Victoria Keddie in the gallery’s downstairs media room.
The sound composition consists of analog synthesizers, field recordings of the ionosphere and environment, and custom-built software mapping and sounding space debris (using NASA live feed data) over two specific coordinates-host locations in New York, and Keddie’s studio in lower New Hampshire.
The projections are a culmination of live recorded sessions using the artist’s software that maps the charted debris. In this iteration, the debris will be represented as visual static that shifts form through digital modulation informed by properties of the debris artifacts.
Exhibition programming will include Keddie’s live performance on November 17, 2022 on the occasion of the release of her record on the gallery’s vinyl imprint.
In Electrona in Crystallo Fluenti (ECF), Victoria Keddie examines orbital debris — from discarded rocket stages and defunct satellites to microscopic paint flakes — as a byproduct of low Earth orbit (LEO). These remnants create a historical record through their continued movement above and around us, questioning whether they still retain the imprint of their origins.
Through live composition and real-time engagement, Keddie constructs a language of probability and exchange — tracking data, mapping debris in real time over select objects as they pass, and generating a virtual sense of proximity and trajectory. Within the televisual static, each object drifts toward entropy.
This drawing series (each work an edition of three) renders visualized debris — unidentifiable fragments collected from the world — as shifting points in space, revealing our view.
24 x 33 in.
24 x 33 in.
24 x 33 in.
4-Channel Screener
Vinyl
Side A of the album is from a live recorded session at Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery NYC, as part of the Solos Festival on May 28, 2020, directed by CT SWaM and Daniel Neumann. The work paired the live session with pre-recorded sessions from the artist’s temporary studio in rural New Hampshire along with nightly ionospheric recordings.
Side B is a live, multi-channel recording captured outside Fridman Gallery’s former Beacon location on May 1, 2021.
Liner notes consist of a short text by poet and writer Marianne Shaneen. This written work stems from her initial response to witnessing a live session as a member of the audience.
About the Artist
Victoria Keddie is an artist who works with sound beyond structured language, exploring the instability of communication through error, interference, and the residual artifacts of transmission. Her work examines disruption, ambiguity, and noise as active sites of meaning-making, analyzing how language fractures and redefines itself through technological mediation and sonic fragmentation.
For over a decade, Keddie served as Co-director of E.S.P. TV, exploring the televisual medium for performance. She has performed and exhibited internationally, with recent fellowships including the NYSCA/NYFA for Music/Sound (2022), the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (2023), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Sound Art, and Experimental Music Fellowship (2024). In 2025, she was a featured speaker and performer at the Salon Sophie Charlotte, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and served as Composer-in-Residence at the Elektronmusikstudion in Stockholm.
Video works are distributed through Lightcone (FR) and The Filmmakers Co-op (US). Sound work released with Raster Media (DE) Chaikin Records, (US), and Fridman Gallery (NYC/US). Music Published with Autopilot (DE).