STRATA

Maxen Wang, Studio Stream

Karen Kraven and Gareth Long, Advisor

STRATA is a project exploring the concept of the simulacra. Inspired by Timothy Morton’s Hyperobject, imagining the potential of these ever-growing entities in a sci-fi setting. A post-apocalyptic world left to be built by a now unmanned machine endlessly generating constructs fed by algorithms and data of pre-apocalypse history fabricating an illusion of continuity for the remnants of human society. To what extend is the narrative that we are presented with a faithful account or a misrepresentation of events, places, and people’s deeds? To what extend is it nothing but a construct agglomerating parts of truth and lies? To what extent are we already living within an artificial construct?