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week 8

SHIMMERING ELECTROMAGNETIC BODIES
The project intends to explore the shimmering electromagnetic bodies creating new architectural spaces and then build these spaces in the virtual environment by using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (NMRI) technique.
Firstly, Belly dancer was chosen as a clear example of atomic structure producing shimmering by body motion and vibration. Belly dance was formed and developed by different societies which have cultural and historical diversities. To clarify both the shimmering and cultural motion of atomic structures, three types of trees were selected from different geographies of the world (volcanic region, sea, forest) and the growing periods of them were analysed. There are valid reasons to choose trees. Firstly, they are suitable structures to show the motion of shimmering and they genetically have water and light which provide together a kid of shimmering to grow. It is also interesting that if the growing of them were observed, it would be able to be seen the similarity between the belly dancer and the tree because all branches of the tree grow to different directions as if they dance. Secondly, trees can naturally record the phenomena which occur their environments such as volcanic eruptions, flood or damages by humans as memory structures.
In the next step of the project, chosen trees were embedded in different shapes by opening from their rings on a surface and a time based electromagnetic landscape was constituted which enable trees to record the conversations around and historical phenomena. At the same time this landscape gave us opportunity to scan the body motions and shimmering of trees which create new spaces by using NMRI.