TOM BORGAS
Hyperproject (The Cloud)

First coined in 2008 by speculative philosopher Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects are ecological objects with spatial and temporal dimensions the totality of which extends far beyond the limits of human perception. Examples include global warming, the solar system, all the styrofoam every created and the stock market. Given our perception of these things is only ever partial, it is a concept that challenges traditional ideas of thingness.

The Cloud is a great example of a hyperobject. Posting photos on Facebook or streaming music through Spotify, we engage with something that extends far beyond our local experience of it. Our engagement with The Cloud feels convenient and immaterial but its existence is contingent on a vast network of hardware, components and connections that bore through geography, politics, time and space.w

This suite of sculptures exists as a speculative exploration of The Cloud as hyperobject. It resists the techno-mythology of The Cloud as non-physical and offers a range of sculptural artefacts that explore complex logic of armatures as conspicuous players in the support more regularly structured triangulated surfaces.

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