Cosmopolitical Futures – Fate Maps - Black Lace - Video

The COSMOPOLITICAL FUTURES – FATE MAPS - BLACK LACE project presents a continuous slowly panning projection of a highly magnified collage of lace set in virtual 3D space as a scrolling scene drawn line by line by the deflections of the scanning electron beam. The soundtrack is composed from a granular synthesis and series of harmonics derived from the sound of silk worms instinctively eating their way through Mulberry leaves in preparation for their metamorphosis. Human vision involves the register of light in the retinal nervous system and brain and the non-optical electron materialization of the Chantilly net in the installation alludes to enhanced human perceptions. The superfine human workings of silk fibers of antique black Chantilly lace into their tonal transparencies and tensions are presented as physical network to evoke the bio-synthesis and suspension of human and insect consciousness in the contemporary ethical planetary context. The visual resemblance of Chantilly lace to a photographic negative, the fine working of the silk protein and the intrinsic quantized energies and discrete processes underlying of operation the scanning electron microscope are used to express the intrinsic mystery of evolutionary and developmental metamorphosis co-alliances between humans and animals in social, cultural, economic and bio-scientific domains. Exhibited at 'The Enhanced Human / Convergence' international group exhibition in I3S, a new architectural project and research centre within University of Porto