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ia universitatisway; on the other hand it shows how this land suasion that the latter perspective is somehow
how to addr ess hyperobjects in exhibitions using emerging technologies 67 (and its utilities) are being threatened from the ”truer” and the first one more real but these are
second floor. both needed to complete, an albeit incomplete
picture. One doesn’t know what is being threat-
The effect sought here would be that since ened without the utility and one doesn’t know
the focus of attention remains the same, a map, what is the threat without the zoomed out cli-
but the perspectives are different, utility/cli- matological view.
mate(threat posed to utility), a more broad and
differentiated didactic can be achieved. One can In a third installation the Land Interpreta-

on the one hand inform on what kind of activi- tion becomes very vivid and palpable: with the
ties that are available and at the same time, from use of augmented reality binoculars one can cre-
the second level see how those same activities are ate layers of information put on top of existing
being threatened from a changing climate. For landscape in real time. As a result the geological
example one can in the first level get to examine time perspective can be viewed in a sped up man-
where there are summer houses for rent and then ner. For example the creation of a fjord as a re-
on the second level see how those summer house sult of the interaction of a glacier and a mounted
are under threat from rising sea levels. These can be visualized in 3D and shown as an anima-
two levels then work in tandem, they only have tion on top of existing vistas. But also the extrap-
meaning in tandem and are dramaturgical con- olation in climatology can be brought to this vi-
tingent on each other. One might be of the per- sual medium to show glaciers receding, tree line
climbing and water levels rising. All in the very
real and tangible way all of the science say is nec-
essary to get people to not only think on the geo-
logical scale but also feel on the geological scale.

These implementations can more accurately
represent, in a compelling interaction and parti-
cipatory way these new hyper objects. The dual
(or plural) layers of objects can be reveal through
user interactions from different points of view.
Imagine for example a deictic interaction that
takes in to account the point of view from whi-
ch the spectator is pointing to reveal the content
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