Object/sculpture (2024)

Hommage to an insect´s eye

The object merges the visual apparatus of insects and birds with flame sensors and cutting edge wafer technology.

The sculpture based on an ultraviolet sensor in the 185 to 260 nanometer range. Enlarged 35 times, it is transformed into a non functioning eye. Where the sensor once measured radiation, a silicon wafer inlay appears, treated with extreme ultraviolet photolithography at 13.5 nanometers, the process used to create microscopic circuits for GPUs.

The sculpture connects two ultraviolet worlds. One is the UV range that birds and insects perceive for orientation and foraging. The other is the extreme UV used by humans to manufacture the computational vision of machines. In both cases, ultraviolet is tied to survival, life giving and dangerous at once. The sculpture refers both to biological vision and to technical visualization, and it is a hybrid “ 3D screenshot” of the oscillation between instinct and algorithm.

Size: 62 cm x11 cm x 22 cm

Material: Aluminium, Acrylic glass, silicium wafer

with support of TU Delft, Quantum Wafer Lab