Emily Dinnerman

The Hypnotechnic

Diluvial epochs, Worlding, Post-Anthropocene

The Hypnotechnic looks at the urban landscape through a new lens, employing a blend of digital techniques and a para-fictional narrative of Earth’s future. This new era marks an age where landscapes, once heavily transformed by human-accelerated climate change, cease to be a nuisance to humankind. Instead, humankind achieves homeostasis with the environment through a device unearthed in ancient Antarctica. This era marks a transition from the Anthropocene, where humans persist and operate within a new global environmental paradigm shaped by this device. The device takes no form, left to the viewer’s imagination through storytelling, images, diorama, and found objects.

The aesthetics of this new age evolve as a byproduct of what we achieved from climate change. The project encapsulates three ecologies within an atlas, spanning the years 2070, 2275, and up to the reversal of global warming in 3100. The Hypnotechnic introduces a new perspective on what the built environment means in Earth’s future. Through superimposition and stratification, these worlds illustrate the interdependence of geomorphology and environmental conditions. The Hypnotechnic inspects artifacts that hint at climate change effects, including tectonic shifts in soft desert rock, silt erosion in rivers, rising sea levels, and the fusion of raw materials with human-made raw materials.

The narrative unfolds through the tale of three city-ecology-timelines.

Atopos Map

Atopos Terrain

Atopos Terrain IR

Arrabesk Terrain

Corelinius Terrain