Hyperobject (Kyneton)
Stockroom July 4-31, 2019
First coined in 2008 by speculative philosopher Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects are ecological objects with spatial and temporal dimensions the totality of which extends far beyond the limits of human perception. Examples include global warming, the solar system, all the styrofoam ever created and the stock market. Given our perception of these things is only ever partial, it is a concept that challenges traditional ideas of ‘thingness’.
Manifesting as a white, vertical, triangulated surface attached to a complex painted wooden armature, Hyperobject (Kyneton) is part of an ongoing sculptural speculation on cloud computing as hyperobject. In contrast to the mythology that frames the storage and access to data as immaterial, the chroma-key blue back-end structure erupts as a series of conspicuous fragments across the objects and architecture of the space.