Terra Extensa

The Terra Extensa video was created together with artist Zoé Moineaud as part of The Extended Landscape group art project for the Guide to Simulated Futures exhibition. The project examined the impact and possibilities of simulation on the act of seeing. Every visual apparatus has a resolution limit, the point where we can no longer zoom in. Simulated seeing allows us to see past that and recover the information hidden beneath the noise. The project was possible thanks to a collaboration with researcher Daniel Schraik, who is working with computer-generated models of trees, point clouds and other data through the usage of Terrestrial Laser Scanning. In the Terra Extensa video, we used the visual data material collected by Schraik and turned it into a conceptual zoom into the pixel, the smallest digital unit. Starting from a very far distance we encounter the Earth as a whole and keep zooming in until we encounter the trees, a single tree, and eventually, a pixel. Still, we keep going further until we reach the planet within that pixel and start the zooming process all over again, infinitely.