HYPER-ELASTIC MIND
2017
// 3D moving image, screens, electronics, steel and aluminum
Information, the digital, and technology has permeated into our lives so quickly and also created dramatic changes. The curator Paola Antonelli at MoMA describes the capacity of our mind to grasp these momentous changes as being an ‘Elastic Mind’, that our minds should be fluid to be able to synthesise all. She posed the question what will the future generation’s mind be if technology and information are even more advanced?
Inspired by a YouTube video showing a baby touching a paper magazine like an iPad, I looked into ‘neuroplasticity’, the brain’s ability to rewire itself to adapt to new circumstances. The brain is very flexible and adjustable with the ability to adapt to various different situations and conditions. This research led me to the concept of the ‘Hyper-Elastic Mind’ to demonstrate how the future generation’s mind will be even more flexible than ours. Following this, I realised that the hyper-elastic mind does not actually demonstrate how the mind will develop in the future but rather the ability and capacity of humans to think and use digital sources naturally - just as using a brush to paint feels natural. I translated this into a 3D visual language, making a full figure 3D rendered man wearing a futuristic suit and displaying the human behaviour of using a technological device but without actually holding said device, to show how natural it can be.
Prototype
