a space for encapsulation
Andrey Chugunov
a space for encapsulation' explores Scotland’s coastlines through photogrammetry, generative sound, and poetic narrative, documenting hybrid assemblages of natural and industrial artefacts in transient zones impacted by rising sea levels.
Perpetual Present
Sofia Crespo
Palaeolithic cave painters depicted their ecosystem, most species of which are now extinct. Using ML, 3D printing, and robotics, ancestral art is re-visited through now-endangered species, questioning how technology shapes perception and what testimony endures through time.
Mojo: The Floods
Jeremy Kamal
“Mojo: The Floods” is an animated CGI short film, set in a fictional universe called Mojo. In a world where contemporary urban rituals shape natural systems, the film depicts a speculative ecology where a trap-producer controls an entire watershed through his mixing board.
The Sentinel Self
Sissel Marie Tonn
The Sentinel Self is an interactive, simulation-based artwork that reflects on the entanglements between human immune systems and environments increasingly polluted by microplastics.
Being hyphaenated (Ser hifanizado)
Cesar & Lois
Being hyphaenated (Ser hifanizado) is an artwork-as-ecosystem that performs the complex interactions across species that are the basis for a balanced planet. The work draws attention to the relationships between the planet's beings connected by hyphae and planetary respiration.
Surge
John Ingle
SURGE is a clarion call to restore our lost connection with water. Fusing performance, storytelling, audience participation and technology, it uses motion capture, VR, and LED screens to bring the spirit of this threatened force to life in a mesmerising, multi-sensory experience.
Self-Contained
Entangled Others
‘Self-Contained' is the mutation of digital images as DNA: crossbreeding, mutating, and splicing random compressed fragments, as a way of exploring encoding/decoding information as image-making. The final mutating artwork into synthesized DNA, stored in a physical capsule,
The Plant Intelligence Plan
Zhang Tianyi
Based on plant intelligence, the work recognizes the rights of plants, and repairs the deprived ecological connection of commercially bred crops with animals. It criticizes the alienation of ecology caused by anthropocentrism, advocating an equalist ecological relationship.