Data Fossils: Speculating on Restoration


Data Fossils is a speculative project imagining futuristic archaeology and alien anthropological research. Assuming a site might completely demolish and the only remnant would be digital data from photos, how might a physical restoration look like if a machine is doing an automatic translation from 2D to 3D?
This series of 3D printed models represent follies from Painshill Landscape Garden. The artefacts were generated out of data from digital photos of the actual site. Rendering the 2D images through 3D automatic filters resulted with distorted yet curious objects where a cloud in the sky becomes an integral part of the temple’s roof, trees become cracks in the walls; water reflections blend into the architecture and shadows become holes.
The fossils of digital data challenge the human categorisation and classification system and suggest an alternative way of seeing, redefining what a view is.
The Data Fossils accumulates layers of information. The follies are mimics of the original historic buildings; the photos are subjective documentation of the follies; the digital data of the photos is a parametric analysis of an image, translated into a 3D geometry, which is then formed as a material structure through a 3D printer—an artefact transformation.
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Process of automatic digital translation from 2D photo [1], using a depth mapping filter [2], rendering a 3D digital model out of it [3] and finally converting it into a 3D file for 3D print [4].




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Destabilised Common Grounds
A performative installation and workshop revealing the wisdom of moss colonies. It invites a deep engagement with a fascinating community that we tend to overlook - mosses. In this project, audiences influence the moss’s climate and see the impact of their actions on the moss’s condition in real-time through two large projections.
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A performative installation and workshop revealing the wisdom of moss colonies. It invites a deep engagement with a fascinating community that we tend to overlook - mosses. In this project, audiences influence the moss’s climate and see the impact of their actions on the moss’s condition in real-time through two large projections.
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Data Fossils
A speculative project imagining futuristic archaeology and alien anthropological research. Assuming a site might completely demolish and the only remnant would be digital data from photos, how might a physical restoration look like if a machine is doing an automatic translation from 2D to 3D?
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A speculative project imagining futuristic archaeology and alien anthropological research. Assuming a site might completely demolish and the only remnant would be digital data from photos, how might a physical restoration look like if a machine is doing an automatic translation from 2D to 3D?
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Inflate
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An experiential installation provoking against monopolism and dominance of a tiny oligarchy.
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Moss exploration
“It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.”
[Paul Klee]
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“It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.”
[Paul Klee]
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