Super Matter

A “team MATRIOSHKA” FILM
WRITTEN BY ANASTASIA GLOBA, DAVID COOK, STUART TAYLOR

- Swiss Scientists develop 3D printing technology that allows users to re-materialise disused matter into new spatial configurations.

- Material is fed into ‘RE-MAT-MiXers’ which transform redundant material into an ethereal solution which, with the application of parametric code, is transformed into useful matter.

- The natural development of this technology leads to the inception of teleportation technology where the user can rematerialise instantly anywhere in the world.

- This leads to the New Zealand Government introducing a spatial allotment scheme, devised as the most democratic means of evenly distributing matter and space (or MA$)

- The evolution of the urban fabric sees dramatic reconfiguration from individual plots within space to an organic agglomeration with no need for circulation as disused materials are re-programmed as useful space

- Inevitably, the commodification of space and (limited) matter results in a social inequity which ironically mimics the current urban stratification.

- Each person is free to manipulate their own allotment, dependent only on the materials available to them and the arrangement of their proximate neighbours

- Because spaces can only equal (or be lesser to) the input materials, space gradually begins to shrink as matter is lost as ‘junk space’ – much like coins down a couch

- Entrepreneurial “second-hand space dealers” realise the economic potential of such junk space, buying the decreased allotments and turning them upside down to gather the ‘slithers’ of junk space which are then collected into significant parcels.