# HyperBody 超体

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**Published on:** 2022-11-03
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HyperBody Demo, VR game test recording, 01:20, Chongqing, 2019The research is undertaken by art and architectural practice and seeks to provide a definition of HyperBody: a hybrid of architecture, anatomy, anthropology and game. It investigated three specific geographic locations in China that each presents a specific type of excess: The Hyper-religious Body in the Dunhuang Caves, Gansu Province, the Hyper-sexual Body in Beijing, and the Hyper-gastronomical Body in Chongqing. Each offers an expansion of the maximalism research approach, based on visual excess. By conducting fieldwork at these sites, we tried to redefine the spaces around and beyond the human body in order to ultimately lead to the HyperBody – a multi-reality architectural space that mediates between the physical and virtual spheres. We built on the knowledge of the bridges and interstices between architecture and the internet, as well as the creation of digital game spaces, by consulting digital anthropologists and also architectural and design theorists. The project takes a number of anthropological, architectural, new media (anime, comics and games) and body materials to remix, recreate and rediscover as the subject for, as well as the context of, the research. It will use multiple media starting with drawing and painting before extending to 3D scan, VR filming, painting and game design. This non-hegemonic conglomerate below crosses over from the academic sphere to everyday scenarios and encompasses various subcultures.HyperBody Physical Level 1 (Green): VR Instructions and AR Totems (Markers), Photograph, Chongqing, 2019 © Burning BearThe HyperFeast of Chungking Cannibalism Hotpot is a multi-reality spatial experiment both for the research output of the third field study site in Chongqing and a more comprehensive assemblage of art and architectural work-in-progress under the Digital Earth theoretical framework since October 2018. This experiment includes 4 physical levels and 7 virtual levels intersected together that encourage audiences to scan, paint and eat during the event. It includes Physical and Virtual Levels. Physical Level 1: Green / Physical Level 2: Orange / Physical Level 3: Pink / Physical Level 4: Red Virtual Level 1: Rubic’s Cube Mansion / Virtual Level 2: Parallel Cave / Virtual Level 3: 465 Cave / Virtual Level 3.5: Underwater Lama Temple / Virtual Level 4: Anatomy of Embryonic Sexual Power / Virtual Level 5: Ba&Shu Binary Star HyperBody: Hashashin / Virtual Level 6: Ba&Shu Binary Star HyperBody: Shun / Virtual Level 6.5: HyperFeast of Chungking Cannibalism HotpotHyperBody Physical Level 1 (Green): Cakrasamvara 001 Pops Up from AR Totem, Photograph, Chongqing, 2019 © Burning BearHyperBody Physical Level 1 (Green): Hashashin Pops Up from AR Totem, Photograph, Chongqing, 2019 © Burning BearHyperBody Virtual Level 1: Rubic’s Cube Mansion - Welcome to HyperBody, Screenshot, Chongqing, 2019 HyperBody Map, Video, 01:10, Chongqing, 2019HyperBody Physical Level 2 (Orange): Hyper-sexual Body: Androcur with 6 Cannibalistic Pink Yogurts by Sense Health Management Studio, Photograph, Chongqing, 2019 © Burning BearHyperBody Physical Level 2 (Orange): Painting inside HyperBody Virtual Level 3: 465 Cave by Oculus Rift, Photograph, Chongqing, 2019 © Burning BearHyperBody Virtual Level 3: 465 Cave - Bodhisattva 001, Screenshot, Chongqing, 2019HyperBody Virtual Level 3: 465 Cave - Cakrasamvara 001, Screenshot, Chongqing, 2019HyperBody Physical Level 3 (Pink): Playing inside 7 HyperBody Virtual Levels by HTC Vive Pro, Photograph, Chongqing, 2019 © Burning BearHyperBody Physical Level 3 (Pink): Hyper-sexual Body: Aldactone with HTC Vive Pro, Photograph, Chongqing, 2019 © Burning BearHyperBody Physical Level 4 (Red): Hyper-gastronomical Body: Physical Chongqing Hot Pot with Electric Button Entering into Virtual Hot Pot, Photograph, Chongqing, 2019 © Burning BearHyperBody Physical Level 4 (Red): Hyper-gastronomical Body: Feeding with both Physical and Virtual Chongqing Hot Pot Food, Photograph, Chongqing, 2019 © Burning BearHyperBody Physical Level 3 (Pink) and 4 (Red), Photograph, Chongqing, 2019 © Burning BearHyperBody Virtual Level 6: Hashashin, Screenshot, Chongqing, 2019HyperBody Virtual Level 7: Shun, Screenshot, Chongqing, 2019Jiadong Qiang and Mingxuan Xie thank Zihan Zhou, Jingzhi Wu, and Ciel Ding for their encouragement, support, and constructive suggestions during the Digital Earth Fellowship 2018-2019 in China.

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