The videotape Hubble briefly invokes history, science, philosophy and fiction, as it plays with themes drawn from astronomy and physics. The piece begins with a test subject in a neuroscience laboratory trying to read a fragmented text. Her attempts to keep up with the flickering words projected into the dark booth are monitored via eye-tracking cameras...
The voice of astronomer Edwin Hubble is heard, his measured, dramatic tones reminiscent of 1950s sci-fi movie voice-overs. The test subject rematerialises from a whirling vortex (fashioned from only a few still frames), her eyes and ears encased in a VR headset. Her apparent absorption in a personal, virtual world, and the optimistic tone of Hubble's declarations, contrast strongly with the setting for this final scene: a shopping mall, with ersatz palm trees, fountain and mediterranean architechture.
