Echo Chamber site has artwork installed in the parabolically shaped courtyard between the laboratory building and the classroom building of the Microbiology Department. The buildings’ architecture act as concave sonic mirrors that turn the entire courtyard into an Echo Chamber, where sound is trapped into a standing wave pattern, with areas of amplified resonance and areas of near silence. ATCG Molecules Resonators is the artwork made up of two identical bell/resonators, tuned to the Tonal Center of the ATCG ‘alphabets’ of our DNA. When either one of the DNA bells are rung, the other will hum in harmonic resonance, and visitors in the courtyard can walk across the courtyard through zones of distinct sonic amplification and zones of near silence.

Po Shu Wang is a visual artist who was born in Hong Kong and educated in Italy. His interest is site-specific works which lead him to collaborate with Louise Bertelsen. Their focus has been to create works that are tangible mechanisms by which the public can use as tools to join them in exploring hidden aspects of a locality, crossing into the roles as creators of the content and context of the works.