Hyperobject Dowser
People have always tried to identify the invisible forces around us, just as they once did with nature; the more these forces seem terrifying or humbling, the more we invent tools to confront them, though not all such solutions have been sound. A clear example is the dowsing rod, showing that even today, fear and curiosity can still lead us to rely on irrational ways of thinking similar to those of the past.
The device was inspired by an idea derived from speculation between hyperobjects, humiliating artificial environments, and Lovecraftian monsters. This superstitious apparatus detects the presence of a hyperobject veiled behind in the air by using implicit information such as radio wave signals from Wifi and satellites.



This apparatus considers data collection activity from the stacks of networks as a creepy gaze from the hyperobject in the form of electromagnetic pulses and represents its magnitude as a rotation of two brass rod. The more the device detects the density of artificial signals nearby, the stronger the gaze it represents. Thus, the device make the brass rod rotate further based on the magnitude of the signal.


