The Jump (auto-elucidation), 2024
4 x raspberry PI’s, servo-motors, smartwatch-screens, HD-video, computer generated animation, polycarbonate, wires, window tint, two metal boxes (19 x 38 x 38 cm )

- presented at Mondriaan Prospects (Rotterdam), curated by Johan Gustavsson and Louise Hedriksen

The title of the work refers to a "hyper-jump," canonically known as "the jump" in the sci-fi literary genre. Coined by Isaac Asimov, he describes traveling between or within different dimensions via embellished technology that can warp space-time. Overtime the term has found new usage in tech marketing, where it means moving from old generation to newer generation of systems.  Embracing the inbetweenness of lores, my video probes and attempts to assert ways we could move from old system to a new system and what constitutes such change.

"Geoformations as potential extensions of human systems, at Global Young Creatives Residency on Jeju Island, the unique geological makeup suggested readjustment of ones perception. The island’s terrain, a mix of crushed seashells and lava rock with underground air channels, known as "Geomunoreum lava tubes," were shaped during volcanic eruptions. These tubes allow cool coastal air to create a microclimate that sustains an micro-ecosystem at the volcano's summits.

Jeju’s geoformation and air flow reminded me of a high-performance computer cooling system, where management of excess energy supports a healthy system. This led me to think about hardware acceleration in computing— specific hardware components are performance optimized to cope with energy intensive tasks. Just as Jeju’s natural systems manage to dissipate heat with efficient airflows, hardware acceleration enhances computational efficiency, exapnding system's operational capcaity under heavy load, when it would otherwise suffer from the effects of overheating.

Animated in ModernGL, an original code language designed for "hardware acceleration," the work maximizes the computer's limited operational capacity. The animation depicts back-and-forth movement within cloud formations, never to break to through, evoking the style of a video game engine sky-box — there's a flirtation between boundaries inside a peephole with the use of moving smartwatch LCD-screens.

In the rapid pace of the tech industry, “promises” often seem to exist merely disappear or end up forgotten as the engineers keep us on our toes for the next 'jump'. Might the jump simply just refer to the "jump of subjectivity"?"

"The wheel... is an extension of the foot. The book... is an extension of the eye... Clothing, an extension of the skin... Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system." — Marshall McLuhan