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The Hypercube is a concentric cubic sculpture illuminated with a 120 metre addressable LED array. These light pixels allow for the investigation of a range of intricate choreographies that can be obtained through its minimalistic form.

The pixels positioned throughout the sculpture are capable of indicating their virtual coordinates and therefor programmed to illuminate as they are intersected by a variety of transient virtual volumes. This capacity to reveal shape as light is automated and recorded into individual scenes which are then sampled, duplicated, resized and syncopated along a rhythmic timeline and combined with the illumination of individual elements of the structure and the inclusion of particle animation. 

Sound designs are employed to deliberately cultivate a deeper audiovisual synesthetic connection. By continually cross referencing the sound and vision, audiovisual sync is gradually tightened and unified. Ambient light that is captured by the surrounding walls of the room further intensifies these audiovisual choreographies, culminating in the creation of a dynamic immersive environment.

Although the work straddles a temporal structure, is also departs from a single point of reference and positions itself outside conceptual framework and into the realms of arbitrariness and abstract expressionism. It's frenetic technical pace evokes cognitive suspension while, conversely, its moments of serenity provide a paradox of contemplative reflection.

The aim of this piece is to provide consideration into the depth and breadth of spatio-temporal relationships and how much of this information can be identified and absorbed through crossmodal sensory perception.

HYPERCUBE

_Images [via](http://kitwebster.com/hypercube/)_

Visualizing a tesseract is hard to do. Limited as we are to three-dimensional thought, fathoming the geometrical principle of a 4D hypercube just seems, well, _unfathomable_. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try: tackling the challenge seems to be a favorite pastime for artists at the intersections between math and technology&#x2014; see, for example, designer Marc ten Bosch's [explanation of his](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/impossible-4d-puzzle-game-defies-physics-and-lets-you-walk-through-walls) ['impossible' 4D puzzle game](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/impossible-4d-puzzle-game-defies-physics-and-lets-you-walk-through-walls).

In this vein, mixed-media artist [Kit Webster](http://kitwebster.com)'s _Hypercube_ installation, which debuted at the [White Night Festival](http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/) in Melbourne, Australia, also does a great job at visualizing the subject. Using programmable LEDs to flash along the sculpture's edges like interdimensional beings flitting back and forth from dimension to dimension, the _Hypercube_ isn't just an explanation of a mind-melting geometric concept&#x2014; like the [3D projection-mapped sculpture](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/projection-mapped-sculpture-combines-2d-3d-digital-and-physical) he created last year, this sculpture's attention to visual and structural detail makes this installation completely immersive on aesthetic and intellectual levels.

In the [words of the artist](http://kitwebster.com/hypercube/), "The minimalistic shape is designed to elicit a sense of balance and multidimensionality while simultaneously playing host to an intricate audiovisual experimental and synesthetic choreography, further extending the dimensionality through its spatial and temporal dynamics, culminating in the creation of a dynamic non-linear sensory environment." Webster's creation meticulously synchronizes the strobing, swirling light show with a driving beat in a pattern that gloriously overwhelms the senses, even when watching from a tiny laptop screen. The sculpture takes on the kind of appearance we imagine a square-shaped portal into a parallel universe might look like. In the future, we hope interdimensional travel is half as awesome as gazing into the _Hypercube_.

Watch the engrossing sample footage of the _Hypercube_ above, and ogle these choice moments its performance below:

To lose yourself in more mind-melting installations and objects&#x2014;from LED sculpture to projection mapping and beyond&#x2014;[visit Webster's portfolio website](http://kitwebster.com).

_[Step Inside This Interactive Neon Dreamscape](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_au/blog/take-a-walk-through-this-interactive-dreamscape)_

_[This Reactive LED Basketball Court Will Teach You To Ball Like Kobe](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/this-projection-mapped-basketball-court-will-teach-you-to-ball-like-kobe)_

_[Light The Sky With Lasers When You Wish Upon This Tree](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/light-the-sky-with-lasers-when-you-wish-upon-this-tree)_

_[Abstract Projection Mapping Turns Infrastructure Into Chaos](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/abstract-projection-mapping-turns-infrastructure-into-chaos)_

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