matrix.24 N°1[hyper.data ver.]

This installation extends matrix.24 N°1, a work from the first part of the Seen/Unseen series, and forms a pair with Seen/Unseen N°0[hyper.data ver.]: here too, the vast unseen body of data and seismic waveforms behind the original work is turned inside out to become the material itself. The two share a single mechanism, and differ only in the body that receives the vibration — water exchanged for metal.

Here again, the images involve no pre-recorded footage: software reads the seismic data at random and in real time, generating images in the present moment. The intensity of the data being read is converted, simultaneously, into the intensity of sound — signals of extreme low frequency drive a bass shaker beneath a large metal plate, setting the entire sheet of metal into low-frequency resonance.

Metal answers nothing like water. Water receives upon its surface, rendering the slightest disturbance as visible ripples; metal resounds with its whole body — rigid, dense matter becomes, in the low frequencies, a resonating body, and its sound does not stay at the surface of the thing but fills the entire space. When an earthquake strikes, it is precisely what is rigid — steel, structure — that groans in the shaking; this metal plate stands like a fragment of the built world, sounding the earth anew through its own material. Sharing a single source, visualized data structure and extreme low-frequency resonance coexist, each inflecting the other — and here, at last, data is no longer merely image and code held before the eyes: it fills the air, envelops the body. We no longer stand before the data — we stand within it.

With the support of the National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan.

此裝置延伸自《Seen/Unseen》系列計畫第一部的作品《matrix.24 N°1》，並與《Seen/Unseen N°0[hyper.data ver.]》互為一對：同樣將原作背後不可見的大量311強震資料與地震波形翻轉為材料本身，兩者共用同一套機制，僅僅更換了承受震動的身體——由水，換成金屬。

影像部分同樣沒有任何預先錄製的影片：程式即時、隨機地讀取地震資料，於當下運算生成影像；被讀取資料的強度，同步轉換為聲音的強弱——極低頻的訊號驅動大型金屬板下方的低頻震動器（bass shaker），使整片金屬進入低頻的共鳴。

金屬的回應與水截然不同。水以表面承接，將最細微的擾動化為可見的波紋；金屬則以全身鳴響——剛硬、緻密之物，在低頻中成為發聲的共鳴體，聲響不停留在物的表面，而是充滿整個空間。地震來臨時，正是這些剛硬之物——鋼鐵與結構——在搖晃中低鳴；這片金屬板彷彿建成世界的一枚切片，以自身的材質重新發出大地的聲音。視覺化的資料結構與極低頻的共振聲響同源共存、彼此牽動——至此，資料不再只是眼前的圖像與編碼：它充滿空氣，包裹身體。我們不再站在資料之前，而是置身其中。

本作品獲臺灣國家文化藝術基金會贊助。