The Hypnotechnic looks at the urban landscape through a new lens by using mixed digital techniques and a para-fiction story of Earth’s future. The Hypnotechnic marks an age where landscapes heavily transformed by human-accelerated climate change are no longer a nuisance to mankind. Instead, mankind reaches homeostasis with the environment through a device unearthed in ancient Antarctica. This era marks a transition from the Anthropocene where humans are alive and well, but operating under a new environmental condition of the world due to this device. The device takes no form. Instead, the viewer defines it through storytelling, images, a diorama, and “found” physical objects.

The aesthetics of this new age are a byproduct of what we achieved from climate change. Three ecologies are observed in an atlas of landscapes from the years 2070, 2275, and today, 3100. We observe each ecology leading up to the end of global warming when we enjoyed the reversal of global warming. The Hypnotechnic is a new lens on what the built environment means in Earth’s future. Through superimposition and stratification, these worlds represent an interdependence of geomorphology and environmental conditions. The Hypnotechnic inspects several artifacts that suggest climate change effects through tectonic shifts of soft desert rock, silt erosion in rivers, rising sea levels, and the hybridization of raw materials with human-made raw materials.

The following tells the tale of three city-ecology-times.