part of the fictional research into the region of Schrattenberg, artwork by Karin Lingnau, stone silhouette on map

IDiA presents: GeomYne

Exhibitions, Research May 3, 2025

GeomYne – A research project on nanogeometric mining systems.
Presented by IDiA, Institute for Diachronic Artifacts.
2024

Insight into an ongoing research project of the Institute for Diachronic Artifacts (IDiA), whose core focus is research into artifacts of the future.
In this case, the Institute is studying St. Lorenzen as a possible mining area where geometric structures are being mined as a potential source of energy.

Project developed during the artist residency at hotelpupik, August 2024, exhibited on the festival 09.-11.08.2024, Schrattenberg, Scheifling, Austria

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IDiA researches St. Lorenzen as one of 12 future prospect sites, where the mining of geometric structures as a source for new/ as of yet unknown form of energy will have taken place.
The technical drawing is an attempt at reconstructing one element of mining equipment, supposed to be the most plausible extraction device to be applied in this area.
Parts of it seem to be based on muon tomography technology tuned to detect molecular folding structures in elemental geometries, supported by a diffractiometer setup and a neutrino scanner. The estimated scale for the device varies between astronomical units and nanometers.
Questions of details in the mining process and its dimensions, and what kind of geopolitical and geomorphological transformations of the area would ensue remains open for further research and discussions.

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artwork by Karin Lingnau, showing a technical drawing of a fictional device

File GM-My (In) 25/2 (li)
Main site N47°08‘3.3 E14°23‘32.3
Prospect zone 4/12

(Re)construction drawing of a scanning and mining device: Probable muon folding detector, geometric energy harvester and/ or spatial resonator.
Operation manual missing, scale unknown.

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artwork-installationview of table with several artifacts and fictional scientific research by Karin Lingnau

File GM-My (PrZ) 25/2 (li)
Research project GeomYne (on nanogeometric mining systems)
Years 2520 – 2670
Map Scale 1:10.000

Survey and extrapolation of structures, traces, fragments of probable instruments.

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installation view of artwork by Karin Lingnau, setting in hotelpupik, Schrattenberg

Installation view
GeomYne – A research project on nanogeometric mining systems.
Presented by IDiA, Institute for Diachronic Artifacts.

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journal pages of fictional research project, artwork by Karin Lingnau

File GM-My (J) 2/10 (li)
Exemplary pages out of the journals accompanying the research project GeomYne.

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Project realized during an artist residence at hotelpupik, Schrattenberg/ Scheifling, Austria, August 2024