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the physical and emotional aspects of our current engagements with
technologies.
This thesis and its accompanying project is an attempt to explore
visualizing (near) real-time data as a physical form beyond media screens.
To avoid using privileged visual method and to provide a more reliable
representation of nature, I used real time kinetic movements and
corrosion instead of drawing with ink on papers or screens. My work is
the place of an enormous ‘gap’. The ‘gap’ allows imagination and it
belongs to a dimension of reality, nature or a city in a strict sense.
My belief is that this project can be applied to physical public spaces in
the future. For example, it could be installed inside/outside of Foster’s
building as a different approach to nature. It also could be used as a public
sculpture, a façade/skin of building, or even a form of mobile device that
people can bring everywhere. People experience nature indirectly and
their everyday physical experience is usually in the space of cities. When
the project is embedded in cities in a different form from media screens, I
believe that the project can create the gap that recreates a different urban
context.
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