Enhance
What becomes amplified?
MODERN MYTHOLOGY PROJECT / FIELD LAB
Begin with a material.
Look closely. Form a hypothesis. Let the field answer.
01 / MATERIAL
FOUR WAYS OF LOOKING
A material is also a medium.
Borrowing from McLuhan’s Four Laws of Media, explore what a material amplifies, displaces, brings back, or becomes at its limits.
Obsolesce
What becomes less necessary?
Retrieve
What returns or is rediscovered?
Reverse
What happens at the limits?
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Possibilities, not certainties. This prototype uses material profiles and rule-based prompts to generate four exploratory hypotheses. They are not scientific predictions, ranked probabilities, or instructions for an experiment. Unknown materials receive general prompts.