birth of a scientific hyperobject

2023

adhesive vinyl

concealed inside the cabinets of the clean room in the mit.nano lab, birth of a scientific hyperobject pairs poetry with scientific aesthetics and methodologies to encourage reflection about how materially expansive even a simple research project can be. applying fourier transforms to information gathered in the activity of the initial 50 days of a scientific project this work produces harmonic segments, each representing a particular person’s contribution to specific parts and scales of the research project. when summed, these segments reconstitute a waveform that represents the development of the entire scientific work.