Artwork Appreciation
CHANG Yung-Ta’s panel video work hyper.data series is the second part of the video and audio installation artwork of Seen/Unseen that investigates sensory relationships between the body and information or data after the March 11th Tohoku earthquake. hyper.data is mainly composed of QR Code imageries to convert mathematical constants of π, γ, e, φ often used in seismic and sound wave formulas. While images may look different due to the viewer’s personal interpretations, mathematical constants will stay the same no matter the type of computer used. By reaching the maximum content load of a QR Code, the artist has created a scenario where a state of being can be seen, but never in its completion.