Peiyan Zou's installation, Discerning the Silent Presence, utilizes LIDAR technology to question the reliability of objective scans. It employs optical principles and reverse-engineered algorithms to manipulate perceptions, merging real events with fictional narratives. This interplay blurs the distinction between authenticity and artifice, compelling viewers to confront the nature of reality within Epping Forest. LIDAR serves as both a storyteller and an unreliable witness, reflecting concerns about technology distorting perceptions while echoing the warnings of distortion inherent in new optical tools.
The apparatus uses optical principles combined with reverse engineering algorithms to disrupt the scanner's perception, intertwining tangible events, recorded fictions, and imagined scenes to blur the line between authenticity and artifice.
By exploiting the same techniques now embedded in autonomous vehicles and even smartphones, Zou exposes how easily the rhetoric of positivist realism can be bent toward fabrication.
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