Su Yu Hsin’s Digital Cartography

For centuries, we have looked to the horizon to navigate, using instruments like the astrolabe, sextant, and even our fingers. But we don’t see a skyline in the Google Earth footage Su Yu Hsin includes in her video water sleep II Akaike river under Xizang Road (2019). Instead, we see Taipei from above. Su treats the absent horizon as emblematic of how technology radically reshapes our understanding of space and place. We also see wide-angle shots from a GoPro strapped to a motorcyclist zip