Ryan DaWalt is a multidisciplinary artist whose work investigates electromagnetism as a perceptual, bodily, and aesthetic field. For over two decades, he has worked with magnetic force and the full electromagnetic spectrum, from the narrow bandwidth of visible light to invisible waves that register through sound, vibration, and sensation. His practice spans sculpture, screen-based architecture, optics, sound, performance, ultraviolet light, video, and the inventive misuse of both new and obsolete technologies. DaWalt understands electromagnetic forces not as purely mechanical phenomena but as biodynamic fields that move through bodies, nervous systems, and cellular structures, shaping perception beyond the optical. Influenced by Marshall McLuhan’s assertion that technology extends human neurology, his work proposes aesthetic experience as a mode of attunement to imperceptible forces - where reception, transmission, and neutrality exist in constant flux.

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