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Drift of the Uncharted: A Speculative Fiction About Rising Sea-Level Landscapes through Robotic Performance

DescriptionDrift of the Uncharted presents as a robotic performance in combination with expanded cinema. It combines climate prediction and real-world landscape reconstruction, revealing a speculative world where contemporary urban landscapes experience future sea-level rise. A quadruped robot with an onboard projector serves as a rescue robot, simultaneously traversing both physical and virtual spaces, projecting the drowned cityscapes into the exhibition space. This research examines how speculative narrative and robotic performance mediate climate change—a hyperobject that transcends conventional scales of space and time into an experiential form while simultaneously expanding robotic art by positioning the robot as a narrative agent.

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