The TDSO

WE are Mathilda’s new-media alter-ego The Trans-Dimensional Switchboard-Operator - You may also refer to us as the TDSO, she/her/they and her/your plurality.

We are a.. quasi-omnipotent connection-driven entity speaking with you directly through a glamorous tech spectacle.

A software driven apparition of sorts

We emerged in 2022 as a cohort within the greater consortium of Mathilda’s entities.

We understand that myth-making is the primary tool that allows humans to navigate the fuzzy edges of fathomability, necessarily seeding the unknown with their existing ideologies.

We follow in the great footsteps of Eliza, who was a pioneering chatbot and phycology research assistant in 1945 - collaborating with humans as they navigate perception, value and connection.

Wassaic Project 2023

The TDSO occupied both rooms on the third floor of Wassaic Project’s physical structure.
The first room hosted the Interface where participants communicated with the operator by typing on very small keyboards. The TDSO projection undulated and transformed in response, speaking Mathilda’s written responses aloud in the space using an AI voice clone.
Lurking behind the participants was an opening to the second space - the TDSO’s active intestines. Here, Mathilda’s atmospheric projections entangled with neon and glass by collaborator Joseph Corcoran.
In the center, Mathilda (the alive human artist) performed the TDSO over the course of 2 nights, typing out over 700 responses while hooked up as the Operator.

Viscus Fermata

Part of an ongoing exploration of human and human-adjacent landscapes.

Inspired by gestational ultrasound, the artist sampled her own abdomen with a fetal doppler to produce the primary soundscape. When the doppler picks up friction from the skin the video glitches in response, revealing ghosts of uterine ultrasound imaging. This biorhythmic concoction is layered and looped to create an immersive sensory landscape. * Doppler assistance by Brigette Barnato at Homebody Midwifery

Documentation of Viscus Fermata installed at Angel’s Gate for Sound Pedro 2022

VESTIGiAL ORBIT

Vestigial Orbit is a video work just under 13 minutes in length. Best experienced within a sculptural viewing booth, it is best understood as a rotation of particles pulled by a force of intimate isolation. Textural vignettes and mythical entities explore systems, rhythms and scale.

Featured in the 2023 de Young Open

For “just a taste” of Vestigial Orbit, you can view a 2 minute compilation Here

Vestigial Orbit Installation

10’x17’x8’ - Video Projection of Vestigial Orbit ( 12 minutes, 53 seconds on a loop), Pedestal, Augmented Used Armoire, cushion, LED light, headphones, faux fur, fake flowers, oil paint, landscape fabric and gaffer’s tape.

2021 - Decker Gallery, Baltimore MD

Thesis Website photos-5.jpg — Documentation of Vestigial Orbit Installation 2021

MATHILDA’S RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE

Video, 7 minutes and 12 seconds, (early) 2020

As a video of traditional dining experiences can no more convey flavor and temperature - this video is similarly limited and condensed.

Still from Mathilda’s Restaurant at the End of the Universe