Technoecology - Performing Computation and Aesthetic Sensibility

Our project aims to create an AI-powered technoecology, a bio-inspired intelligent environment inhabited by an eco-robotic agent, performing its computation and aesthetic sensibility in synergy with its surroundings, nurturing a symbiotic relationship between computation, aesthetics, and the natural world.

Leaving traditional human-centric approaches to AI in art, we embrace posthuman performativity and alien agency to reimagine AI and robotics within a critical framework of ecological relations.

In a transdisciplinary effort of art-led inquiry, we challenge dominant narratives of technological development, advocating for a more inclusive and sustainable digital future in a more-than-human world.

The project will employ sculptural explorations, mechatronics, and representation learning AI models, guided by a series of research questions that probe the intersections of art, technology and ecology.

Incorporating elements of bioart (mycelium), we enrich our eco-techno-exploration at the intersection of organic and synthetic agencies.

An artist-led team of diverse artistic researchers and interdisciplinary scholars convene over a period of three years to unravel a relational care aesthetic and develop new artistic methodologies for understanding the entanglement of technology and nature.

Outcomes include an artistic environmental exhibition, performances, seminar, and research articles on the evolving relationship between art, technology, and the artificial ecologies of the now.