Lydia Wong

“Chunk” (2017) explores the scientific definition of the kilogram being dematerialised from a physical artefact to an algorithm. Once thought to be absolute, the physical kilogram was no longer considered objective as despite our best scientific ingenuity, all material changes.

As we have digitised the definition of a kilogram, objectivity moves away from the object - however, the very thing it seeks to define, mass, has no meaning apart from in the physical world. This video seeks to explore this tension.