HYPER-OBJECT X EDINBURGH
MULTI-MODAL INSTALLATION
Concept
Hyperobject is a book written by Timothy Morton, in which he uses Global Warming as an example to explain in detail what a Hyperobject is. And he believes in the book that “Hyperobject may be a map of high-dimensional space”. From another perspective, Hyperobject exists around us in a form that cannot be fully seen, and due to human limitations, we cannot see all of it, just like La Niña is a footprint of global warming, it is time, it is history, it is also a Hyperobject. Hyperobject does not occur in spacetime, but it emits spacetime from within itself to be seen, so how can we capture the Hyperobject in the city of Edinburgh through Lidar?
The I Ching mentions a phrase, the largest object is shapeless, so we can regard the city of Edinburgh as a Place, in which various Hyperobjects exist.Because Hyperobject, like time and wind, cannot be directly seen but can only be indirectly seen or felt, Lidar is like a new eye, replacing us to re-examine everything in this Place, and to find evidence of the existence of Hyperobject.
Idea-What we will do
The vast place of Edinburgh will become the location of our activities. In this place, we use Lidar to collect and scan data, and then edit and process these data through software. We will create new works based on these data. These created works are no longer limited by specific physical space, they can appear anywhere in Edinburgh, and each of them is both individual and unified. Individually, they exist as independent works. Unified means that these works are all created based on the same data. Therefore, we will design a main work and many other small works to be placed in different spaces, making them a part of the whole Edinburgh, a part of the Hyperobject, and a part of this spacetime.
OUR PROJECT
We want to create 12 different hyper obejects with the help of 12 different phenomena and 12 different scans.
Through the lidar scans, edinburgh is no longer a place but data. We aim to showcase this data in all forms and shapes. We will be using softwares and technology to manipulate these data showing the past, present and the future of the same place in various forms.
It is left to the human senses to make sense of it and put the whole place together. Different humam senses awaked in different places but combined into a feel of a single place (edinburgh).
OBJECTS
1. Signification of the data acquired.
The data obtained would be sonified and presented to the audience in the form of audio in small speakers.
2. Physical state
The transition of a place into the form transcending past, present and future would be displayed physically (3d printed) and displayed.
3. Virtual
The data would be manipulated visually creating an animation along with specific sound effects.
4. Raw data
The data would be represented as raw data that makes up all these visual data. This would be as running and printed text. It will have a qr code scanner that would take us into the visual place.
