A radio scanner tunes into aircraft-to-control tower communications and broadcasts the news to ACMI. The viewer becomes part of the commotion of Melbourne Airport. Flight numbers and carriers are called out in real time on LED signs, much like viewing bids in a trading room. QF10 Qantas QF10 Qantas NZ73 Air New Zealand QF10 Qantas AC34 Air Canada.
Since I often investigate radio space, air space and air travel, it seemed logical to me to settle on the non-existent place where they all meet: an invisible radio frequency. ACARS is a protocol to speak of things such as weather patterns, equipment performance, flight plans and occasional personal messages. A small sliver of the AM band is congested with a multitude of voices.
However, only general data can be publicly disseminated in a gallery. Real life is cropped out, much in the same way that pictures are cropped in travel brochures.
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