| 2022 | Mathilde Renault |
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“The work aspires to a future in which Humanity will be able to experience any kind of territory regardless of the spectrum of perception, time, and geography, by enabling bystanders to physically engage with remote environments.”
– Mathilde Renault, Author, to Docubase
Through physical and metaphorical clouds, from orbiting satellites to submarine communication cables, digital culture saturates our planet, mapping and monitoring every activity above and below its surface. As this technology expands to our solar system, it opens the door to new forms of exploration while capitalizing on territories we may never get to settle in. These virtual cartographies however seem to fail in engaging with our basic, atavistic, and primal responses to surroundings: the senses.
The Butterfly Effect navigates within the new geopolitical realities we live in and speculates upon a sensory experience of a territory only known through digital imageries. It explores speculative futurism through digital cartographies and immersive technology in an experimental sensory experience that borrows theories from the perspective of new materialism, posthumanism, and synthetically augmented reality.
The work aspires to a future in which Humanity will be able to experience any kind of territory regardless of the spectrum of perception, time, and geography, by enabling bystanders to physically engage with remote colonies.
As geology appears to be the indicator of the genetics of any planet, the work dives into the genesis of a meteorite and aims to expose the sensory DNA of a remote territory. It investigates an immersive form of design that can emulate interplanetary narratives, crossing over technology as archaeology of our time, and what constitutes the DNA of any planet: geology.
The Butterfly Effect is a multi-sensory installation in which visitors meet a former shooting star. By means of various processes of data translation, the 4.5 billion years old meteorite reveals its hidden genetics through light, sound, smell and video while presenting different stages of its path from Space to Earth. In parallel, a complementary website provides a glimpse of the background processes, from scientific data to sensory experience via visual storytelling.
In an in-depth analysis of a one of a kind time capsule, The Butterfly Effect engages a variety of experts and professionals in the fields of planetary science, aerospace engineering, fragrance technology and digital programming.
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