Diana Rojas:
What the Air Carries

What the Air Carries (2026) reflects on the ways technology, spirituality, and perception intersect. The sculpture gathers low frequencies from the city and transforms them into meditative soundscapes. Projected light from above moves with the audio, creating rhythmic fields of shadow and light around the work, shaped by real-time data received by the antenna. The projected image, forming a ring around the piece, acts as a poetic threshold. The pairing of scientific instrumentation with a spiritual environment and experience reflects humanity’s attempts to engage with what is immense, hidden, or beyond perception.

About the Artist

Diana Rojas is an artist and researcher investigating human attempts to engage with the invisible and immense through the creation of encounters between sensing and knowing. Informed by her interests in philosophy, history, physics, and material science, she approaches technology in artmaking as a catalyst for larger conversations around existence, consciousness, and metaphysics.

Her work has been exhibited, screened, and published nationally and internationally in spaces such as the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Fiesp Cultural Center, Dallas Contemporary, the Chapel of Santa Maria dei Carcarati, Canyon Flats Video Wall, Rockport Center for the Arts, Texas Theater, and the Yale Theater, among others.

Rojas is the recipient of several OER Grants from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the 2023 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award, the 2022 Judson-Morrisey Excellence in New Media Award, and the Arrowmont Windgate University Fellowship.

She was born in Mexico, received her MFA from the University of North Texas, and is an Assistant Professor of Sound Art at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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