King Klon

Premiere, Fall 2027

King Klon is a communication system clepsydra and an explosive marine holographic projection game where a set of myths and deficient evidence incite a cloning outspread hallucination.

An artwork structured by two entities:
1. ‹A self-cloning game system controlling engine› and, 2. ‹A real-time larger-than-life holographic projection and a changing locus›.

Organ formation test animation for King Klon. Image: IFS

The halo of cloned survivorship

«The simulacrum is the true»

A large set of incomplete early data, records and speculation from what Cambria marine life looked and behaved like: records, logs, illustrations, photographs, hand-made models, fabules, children drawings, etc., is used as the basis for a software to guide itself on a digital cloning evolutionary process reconstruction guess. The output along with other technical inputs such as rendering aggregated misalignments, entanglements, data reshuffle, etc. will be used by a game engine to produce an equivalent 3D arresting simulacra, and as these processes occur, they will manifest in changes in the levels of sublimation, condensation, and deposition within an exhibition hall: A system as mad as the evolutionary mystery needs it to be, or as mad as it needs to become, and/or as mad as it can be.

Plan for King Klon, 2027. Image: IFS

Time in the middle of time: The guest bodies and the host body.

For the duration of the exhibition of King Klon and its subsequent installation iterations, a holographic projection appearing as a type of huge large cube sits in an empty darkened hall, its contents resembling a deep underwater primordial scene in which an archaic marine magic show starts to form, emerge and swim across all while the environment becomes sensitive and engulfing.

Patch of Reality, 2027. Image: IFS

Liste to the audio of the environment

Environment suplemental example, 2027. Image: IFS

Remake, 2027. Image: IFS

References & Bibliography

«Is & Resemble», top image.
Identical and resembling chimeric cloned embryos.

Jun Wu, Jianping Fu and IFS

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«Kauai Oo, Macaulay Library»

Cornell Lab

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Han Xu, Chengchi Fang, Wenjie Xu, Haibin Zhang, Kun Wang, Shunping He

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Steven Hunt

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Eugenes Gaffney

«Cloning Techniques» ThoughtCo., August 2021.

Regina Bailey

«Toward developing human organs via embryo models and chimeras» Cell Press Journal, Volume 187, Issue 13, June 2024.

Jun Wu, Jianping Fu