The installation HYPERSKY by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram is a digital fresco of the 21st century, seamlessly integrated in the ceiling of the entrance hall of a private residence. HYPERSKY is an augmented reality window looking upwards, revealing the current natural conditions and manmade objects zooming through the airspace above the house.

On any given day the HYPERSKY display shows a live video signal of the sky over the house. Clouds and birds pass by. The sunlight changes.

At night HYPERSKY automatically switches to a view of the starry sky enveloping the house, though not the actual perceived sky which would be rarely visible due to the lights of the city nearby — rather each planet, star, constellation, globular cluster or galaxy is calculated and drawn in real-time onto the display surface — creating a live map of the true dynamic physical conditions. A radar system picks up the beacons sent out by airplanes, revealing their current position, origin and destination. A satellite tracking system confers with online databases to show the location, speed, altitude and owner of each satellite as it passes by, hundreds of kilometers above.

During heavy rain or winds the HYPERSKY automatically switches to abstract displays of the rain drops falling onto a virtual liquid surface or thermodynamic visualization of the wind currents streaming around the house.

This is a private space which is meant to be lived in. In contrast with a public exhibition which imposes a demand for rapt attention and short bursts of activity, subtle changes over time become amplified through the everyday process of living in the space and with the installation.

HYPERSKY does not require human "interaction" beyond the act of looking. Light patterns, wind flows, clouds, stars, galaxies, airplanes and satellites beyond our normal perception are revealed. Sensory information is encoded in the form of data, processed and made visually perceptible. What we perceive is influenced by a combination of sensors. Each sensor provides a new version of reality. The possibility of mapping, transforming and extending the human perception of space has long occupied a central place in the work of Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram. HYPERSKY can be seen as a further step in the evolution of these works.