VCYBERUTOPIA DISORDER

The Stage of Disorder in the Paradoxes of Virtual and Real

ARC505 Thesis Preparation: Fall2022_Syracuse

Instructor : Britt Eversole, Julie Larsen, Jean-Francois Bedard

Partner: Yukun Zhuang

Contribution: Research, Handcraft Modeling, Drawings

As the energy constantly increasing in the universe with the prove of theory of entropy, it shows that the unavoidable ultimate result from order to disorder. This research specifically studies and analyzes Fermentation as a drive to simulate environments in virtual setting with the involvement of entropy.

Fermentation is a metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substrates. In our case the act of yeast producing carbon dioxide via consuming water and sugar.

The process would create a chaos/disorder that transforms both the physical and chemical properties. We use flour to capture fermentation, because the gluten bond will visualize the physical characteristic of the fermentation’s transformation, which also reflects entropy.

Fermentation as the changing process on flour is bound to remain Micro. However, we consider that the action of itself is not limited to food scale. We interpreted the concept into what we could eat, we could see, and we could live.

Fermentation and Spacial Imagination

Limitation of the material is obvious. In the process of testing and scaling up, the material would break, collapse, shatter. Based on the physical production of bread, we recreate them into something that recalled human sense of cosmos, into something tangible and lively, into something familiar in the natural land like Stalactite.

Virtual Simulation and Visualization

In the virtual, these forms are not just scanned and thrown into. It was created through the fundamental elements of the digital world, codes and particles. It’s similar to the process of using flour and yeast to create bread. However, through technology, we are able to walk through and visualized the micro space.