Material Topology | an audiovisual film exploring materiality at different scales

"Material Topology" is a dome-based audiovisual short film that explores materiality at different scales. It magnifies the subtle changes in the microcosmic world within an immersive space, prompting the audience to contemplate the similarities and chaotic patterns among entities of various dimensions. Inspired by topology's geometry, it reveals how seemingly different objects may possess identical structures, and a mutual mapping exists between micro and macro scales.
The image of the work uses a high-definition macro camera to capture and magnify the dynamic variations of fluorescent powder particles influenced by sound vibrations, projected onto a giant dome. Within the encompassing dome environment, even the tiniest material changes are highlighted, evoking awe and imagination. Simultaneously, the sound experience combined with the changes in vision travels through the entire auditorium, leading the audience to immerse themselves in a world full of chaotic particles. Here, the scale of human beings is minimised, as if merging with matter, feeling the dramatic contrast between the microcosm and the macrocosm.
Director: Ke Peng
Sound Design: Bryan Yueshen Wu, Zhao Jiajing
Exhibited at Taiwan C-Lab Future Vision Lab 2023
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