Hyper Wave

Following the production of Dissociated Fuses, a submarine searching for Taipei’s lost lake—an artwork exploring buried myths of a vanished body of water and the city’s possible futures—the Hyper Wave collective continues its investigation of invisible landscapes and liminal spaces.

The work consists of a diving suit—a helmet fitted with a virtual reality device—inviting the viewer to plunge into a digital environment inspired by the real tanks. Through the headset, the space transforms: luminous, dreamlike creatures, recalling the sea monsters of medieval maps, drift through a viscous, indeterminate liquid.

Caught between fascination and unease, this virtual dive reshapes a mythology of industrial progress, where the promise of modernity merges with the possibility of its own failure. It evokes the uncertainty of a world saturated with automated systems, where scientific exploration, industrial memory, and technological speculation converge in a single immersive experience.

The Accelerated Accident thus stands at the threshold between the real and the virtual, ruin and simulation: a suspended space in which the viewer becomes at once witness, diver, and relic.