* this project is supported by the Sound Off 2022 residency plan of Taiwan Sound Lab, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab.
DOOME: Null Gods is a project which Cheng Daoyuan investigates the convergence and the orientation of the collective unconsciousness of human and digital data, which is embodied in a state between existence and nonexistence.
From languages and images to texts and digital files, our consciousness has been archived – and digitized – into various forms. If the depository of consciousness can be regarded as a form of transfer of the soul, what is the final destination of the souls of the digital dimension? If thousands of years ago people entrusted their consciousness to the gods, will today’s human collective consciousness, connected through digital data, create a new form of god? And if doomsday is not the final scene for humanity and everyone will be reduced to a single consciousness, what will the post-apocalyptic world look like?
This project is a comprehensive experience that integrates the acoustic space of Ambisonics sounds, visuals and installations based on research concerning the relationship between the transition of sound phases, the composition of sound textures, and the structure of the procession of sounds. It is an experiment on the conversation between sounds and various other media that aims to create a dislocation in the senses of time and space.
《DOOME: Null Gods》旨在探討人類集體無意識與數位訊息匯流及導向，進而建構一個介於存、滅之間之狀態。
從語言、圖像、文本，到現在的數位檔案，意識正被歸檔、數位化，轉存為許多形式。若意識的存放可被視為靈魂的轉移，現今處於數位維度的靈魂最終又將歸往何處？資訊將人類的集體無意識串連，若千年前人類將意識寄託於神祇，那現今人們的集體無意識又是否會創造出一個新的「神祇」？以此概念延伸出人類最終的場景，末日並非一切的完結，人類最終將化為共同的唯一意識，在這之後又會是何種景象？
本計劃為建立於Ambisonics系統上之聲響空間與影像、裝置的複合呈現體驗，以聲音相位變化、質地疊加與行進結構之關係作為主要研究發展項目，實驗聲響與不同媒材間的對話，以期營造時間與空間感的錯位。
