Teletotems explores the physical, visibly manifest structures that attest to the invisible realm of hertzian space; the interface between the electro-magnetosphere and the human operators of communication technology. The modern landscape serves as a substrate for the erection of microwave towers, mobile phone masts and radar pickets. Teletotems does not attempt to replicate these structures in their detailed form, or in their function. They do not feature wide band radio scanners tuning into private cellular phone conversations, or bugged transmissions, there is enough of that activity going on in the real world (and Art) already.

The title of the project refers in part to the Telescreen the mysterious surveillance device in George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty Four. The physical, mechanical and structural elements of electro-magnetic technology are apt totemic representations, because they are symbolic of an invisible, parallel element of human culture.