Designing Technology for a Symbiosis Between Natural Systems and Information Infrastructure
Symposium:
Session Title:
- The Ecosophic World: Explorations of Natural Sentient Environments
Presentation Title:
- Designing Technology for a Symbiosis Between Natural Systems and Information Infrastructure
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Abstract:
This paper is an intermediary between the bio-art sculpture Mycocene (2018) created by the collective somme, and the theory that led us towards creating it. Mycocene is a hybrid work that blends bio-art, sculpture and media art through the methodology of bricolage. It critiques the current humantechnological relationship and its subsequent effects on the environment. Humans have created a symbolic bubble around themselves that attempts to separate them from the natural world. Mycocene acts as a conceptual bridge between this anthropocentric bubble and the natural, aiming to exist as the opalescent residue between them and a discussion point around dissolving their membranes.
