Part of Six Minutes Re:search (Lab → Output)
Virtual installation, Newart.city
Bits squirm in union
and dance in a lossless sea
yet no one watches
Deep Time in a Lossless Sea is an interactive environment that interrogates dominant frameworks of time. Drawing on Eastern philosophical perspectives, Eddie Lohmeyer approaches time not as linear progression but as relative construct.
The work imagines a field of immanence in which multiple temporalities - human, computational, cinematic, animal - coexist autonomously. There is no origin point and no conclusion. Time does not advance; it circulates.
Within the Newart.city space, this concept is rendered through the metaphor of a black hole. Media artefacts - GIFs, low-poly models, compressed MP4 files - are drawn inward by gravitational force. Glitch aesthetics dominate. Visual fragments corrupt and reform continuously, existing in states of impermanence.
As viewers navigate the void, they move toward a pulsing core where time appears to expand into both nothingness and totality. The experience destabilises fixed temporal perspective, situating the user within an unfolding, non-linear continuum.
This project contains numerous flickering images. It may not be suitable for individuals with photosensitive health conditions.
Dr Eddie Lohmeyer
University of Florida
Deep Time in a Lossless Sea documents a research-led exploration of time, impermanence and media entropy within a virtual exhibition architecture.