Silicon Sublime

Visual Symbolism

Drawing from microchip die shots, Silicon Sublime scales up their designs and integrates them into the architecture of St. Catharinakerk. The magnified microchip circuits reveal intricate geometries echoing ancient motifs, ornamental patterns, and sacred architectures. The work exposes aspects of computation often hidden from human perception and proposes alternative, symbolic perspectives on computational systems through their aesthetic and spatial exploration.

Crafted Language

Using crafts that resonate with microchip fabrication processes, the installation presents both microchips and historical ornamentation as systems encoding complex layers of knowledge into material form. It reclaims computation as a symbolic, crafted language that carries cultural and aesthetic weight, shifting it from a purely functional tool toward a space of meaning-making and artistic imagination.

Critical Links

Installed within St. Catharinakerk, Silicon Sublime opens a dialogue between past and future, the visible and the encrypted, spirituality and technology. It invites a reconsideration of technology beyond metrics of efficiency and control, embracing its symbolic, mysterious, and aesthetic qualities. By reclaiming computation as a cultural and crafted language, the installation challenges the accelerated, rationalist mindset of digital society and fosters a slower, reflective, and more mystic engagement with the principles shaping our technological and cultural world.