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Terra Infirma (2005)
Project type
New Media Installation. Generative Art; Custom software, sandbox, PC, projector
Date
2004 - 12
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"Shirley Shor’s Terra Infirma, new media installation. Abstract lines are projected in real-time motion on sand, creating an organic architecture. For Shor, the idea of space is politically charged: to draw a line is to divide, to include and exclude at once."
Date
2005
“The grid is an inner map: a network of memories, relations, and unfolding motions”
Terra Infirma reimagines the grid as a living weave , an ever-shifting network of lines pulsing with movement and circulation. A physical sandbox merges with real-time generative animation: streams of colored lines flow across white sand, forming a luminous, mutable lattice. Structure becomes process, and the grid unfolds as both architecture and rhythm.
This living lattice is temporal and fluid. It stretches, contracts, reconnects, and reshapes itself in an unending dance. No pattern repeats; each moment arises as singular, time itself breathing life into space.
Visualizing the rhythms of natural, social, and technological flows, Terra Infirma transforms the grid into a metaphor of interconnectedness, transformation, and impermanence. It invites viewers into a topology in flux - a woven landscape where the only constant is movement and change.
