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Prometheus Bound – In the pursuit of perpetual energy
Prometheus Bound probes the gap between clean energy myths and the messy reality of algae cultivation, while also questioning the ethics of biocontrol and the labor of harvesting electricity from living species.
Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis
This open access collection argues that climate breakdown represents an irreducibly incomputable problem that cannot be resolved through algorithmic optimization or cybernetic planetary management.
  • D25/03/2026
  • CBook
  • P
  • Interview with Marc Vilanova – The hidden frequencies of embodied sound experiences
    Serena Cangiano meets Marc Vilanova to talk about infrasound, embodied listening, and the invisible frequencies that connect human bodies, urban infrastructures, and natural environments.
    Glyphlora – Non-functional Symbiosis and Critical Typography
    Inspired by plant emissions, and challenging human-centric ideas of language and communication, Jane Lee creates speculative glyphs derived from supersonic sounds emitted by plants under stress.
    KIKK Festival 2025 – Rediscovering Playful Interactions
    At KIKK Festival, the tech world felt human again. Conversations, playful installations, and three days of talks showed how creative misuse of tools becomes critique—reviving curiosity in an age overshadowed by AI noise.
  • D07/11/2025
  • A@serena
  • C,
  • P
  • A Non-History of Plants
    The book questions human projections and representations of the vegetal world, bringing to light the subjectivity, intelligence, and expressive abilities of plants. Tracing a visual history of plants, linking art, technology, and science, through ...
  • D06/11/2025
  • CBook
  • Elusive Sense – On The Fluid Boundaries Of Perception
    In Elusive Sense, five artists propose a variety of perspectives on where we sit in the human-technology duality in the era and culture of the anthropocene. 
    Histolysis – Pulsing in peristaltic rhythms
    Histolysis is a kinetic installation that engages nonhuman systems through attunement rather than control. Suspended above the floor, its root-like structure pulses with quiet, peristaltic motion.
    Dioramas – itsgalo
    DIORAMAS is a study in world-making. The worlds made here consist of pixels and abstract forms designed to mimic some sense of nature.
  • D09/07/2025
  • A@Filip
  • C
  • P
  • Enter the Meadow – Claire L. Evans
    Claire beautifully captures the naivety and ignorance of us attempting to imitate life in the false pursuit of the real.
  • D07/07/2025
  • A@Filip
  • C
  • P
  • Komorebi – A swarm of artificial creatures that make music from shadows
    Komorebi is a swarm of artificial creatures that make music in response to the sun, the clouds and the shadows of trees moving in the wind. The work suggests that “life” is not an exceptional property of organic life forms, but also a property of ...
    Ipseria – Cave of intelligent slime
    Ipseria is a series of works that explore blending of realities and deconstruction and rewriting of narratives. By deploying meta-surgical method, her work serves as a scalpel to dissect anthropocentrism where the the binary of human relationships...
    Liminal Ring – (Un)controllable currents in the persistence of chaos
    Liminal Ring visualizes humanity's obsession with controlling nature while exposing the limitations of such interventions. By introducing laminar flows—artificially directed streams—into naturally occurring turbulence, this project explores the bo...
    Under Changing Skies
    Under Changing Skies is a large, digital installation comprising 364 individual windows, each displaying a 24-hour looping timelapse of the sky above London.
  • D06/12/2024
  • C,
  • P
  • Untertage – Troika
    Technology is a driving force in contemporary life. Today, digital change does not only happen onscreen, but impacts everything from social encounters to ecology. The London-based artist group Troika explores how new technologies affect our relati...
  • D27/11/2024
  • CBook
  • P
  • Beepscape for Walla
    Beepscape for Walla is a simulation of a forest in nature, gathering the beep sounds of old mechanical devices. Each electronic light-sound device has a light sensor on the circuit, it makes the sound of a grass bug made of beep responding to hand...
    Data Bugs – When Interaction Design meets Explainable AI
    Data Bugs is an immersive emotional installation that makes tangible and experiential the working mechanism of a neural network, demystifying the omnipotence that is too often attributed to AI.
    The Nature of Code (p5.js) – Daniel Shiffman
    The Nature of Code is a beginner-friendly creative coding tutorial that explores a range of programming strategies for developing computer simulations of natural systems—from elementary concepts in math and physics to sophisticated machine-learnin...
  • D23/04/2024
  • CBook
  • P
  • This Is Not An Artifact – Rich Pell
    Featuring hundreds of entries for collection specimens organized under the postnatural categorical matrix of Isolating, Breeding, Engineering, and Leaking, this book-as-exhibition makes the exceptional collection of the Center for PostNatural Hist...
  • D18/03/2024
  • CBook
  • P
  • Controlled Uncontrollables: SAD and the Bubble Printer
    Developed in the context of Human 2 Objects project, the main concept was to reflect the human capacity to transform natural elements and to use the human body and its spatiality as an input for interactivity. As a result, the exhibition Controlle...
    Sleep Like Mountains – (Re-)discovering bodies in landscapes
    reated by Lotta Stöver, "Sleep Like Mountains" enacts a process of digital embedding and embodying. The installation measures the topography of a human body and compares it to geodata sets of Earth, searching for a most similar location, where the...
    Breeze – The decimal place, a construct of nature beyond 0 and 1
    'Breeze' is a kinetic sculpture that investigates natural and delicate movement using the materiality of papers and a digital system. It consists of 96 note papers in a 6x16 matrix and creates sequential and random movement patterns in the matrix...
    PERACH – Understanding ourselves and our surroundings
    'PERACH' is a biofeedback art installation that allows visitors to 'feel' the interior electrical happenings of their plants. Perach consists of a multi-sensor IoT device along with a web platform that provides visitors with the ability to hear, a...
    Perpetual Beta [encounters in open space] – Exhibition & Weekly Events
    From June 4th to July 4th, The Grey Space embarks on a large-scale experiment entitled Perpetual Beta. In close collaboration with a group of makers and the public, a new form of presentation is explored based on the principles of open source. The...
  • D23/06/2021
  • C,
  • P
  • Face Nature – Future of the head and sensory apparatus
    Created by Madeline Schwartzman, "Face Nature" is a series of experiments produced within the context of See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded (SYX), a recent publication by Madeline that looks at human perception and the sensory apparatus and qu...
    Artificial Arcadia – Measured and adjustable landscapes
    Created by Fragmentin in collaboration with KOSMOS architects, 'Artificial Arcadia' is an interactive installation that creates a performative scenographic landscape for visitors to explore and calls them to consider how contemporary landscape ent...
    Prometheus Bound – In the pursuit of perpetual energy
    Prometheus Bound probes the gap between clean energy myths and the messy reality of algae cultivation, while also questioning the ethics of biocontrol and the labor of harvesting electricity from living species.
    Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis
    This open access collection argues that climate breakdown represents an irreducibly incomputable problem that cannot be resolved through algorithmic optimization or cybernetic planetary management.
  • D25/03/2026
  • CBook
  • P
  • Interview with Marc Vilanova – The hidden frequencies of embodied sound experiences
    Serena Cangiano meets Marc Vilanova to talk about infrasound, embodied listening, and the invisible frequencies that connect human bodies, urban infrastructures, and natural environments.
    Glyphlora – Non-functional Symbiosis and Critical Typography
    Inspired by plant emissions, and challenging human-centric ideas of language and communication, Jane Lee creates speculative glyphs derived from supersonic sounds emitted by plants under stress.
    KIKK Festival 2025 – Rediscovering Playful Interactions
    At KIKK Festival, the tech world felt human again. Conversations, playful installations, and three days of talks showed how creative misuse of tools becomes critique—reviving curiosity in an age overshadowed by AI noise.
  • D07/11/2025
  • A@serena
  • C,
  • P
  • A Non-History of Plants
    The book questions human projections and representations of the vegetal world, bringing to light the subjectivity, intelligence, and expressive abilities of plants. Tracing a visual history of plants, linking art, technology, and science, through two conceptual frameworks: scientific and fictional.
  • D06/11/2025
  • CBook
  • Elusive Sense – On The Fluid Boundaries Of Perception
    In Elusive Sense, five artists propose a variety of perspectives on where we sit in the human-technology duality in the era and culture of the anthropocene. 
    Histolysis – Pulsing in peristaltic rhythms
    Histolysis is a kinetic installation that engages nonhuman systems through attunement rather than control. Suspended above the floor, its root-like structure pulses with quiet, peristaltic motion.
    Dioramas – itsgalo
    DIORAMAS is a study in world-making. The worlds made here consist of pixels and abstract forms designed to mimic some sense of nature.
  • D09/07/2025
  • A@Filip
  • C
  • P
  • Enter the Meadow – Claire L. Evans
    Claire beautifully captures the naivety and ignorance of us attempting to imitate life in the false pursuit of the real.
  • D07/07/2025
  • A@Filip
  • C
  • P
  • Komorebi – A swarm of artificial creatures that make music from shadows
    Komorebi is a swarm of artificial creatures that make music in response to the sun, the clouds and the shadows of trees moving in the wind. The work suggests that “life” is not an exceptional property of organic life forms, but also a property of complex systems reaching beyond biological life as we understand it.
    Ipseria – Cave of intelligent slime
    Ipseria is a series of works that explore blending of realities and deconstruction and rewriting of narratives. By deploying meta-surgical method, her work serves as a scalpel to dissect anthropocentrism where the the binary of human relationships are cut open and insides are turned out.
    Liminal Ring – (Un)controllable currents in the persistence of chaos
    Liminal Ring visualizes humanity's obsession with controlling nature while exposing the limitations of such interventions. By introducing laminar flows—artificially directed streams—into naturally occurring turbulence, this project explores the boundary between certainty and uncertainty. It highlights the tension between the order imposed by hum...
    Under Changing Skies
    Under Changing Skies is a large, digital installation comprising 364 individual windows, each displaying a 24-hour looping timelapse of the sky above London.
  • D06/12/2024
  • C,
  • P
  • Untertage – Troika
    Technology is a driving force in contemporary life. Today, digital change does not only happen onscreen, but impacts everything from social encounters to ecology. The London-based artist group Troika explores how new technologies affect our relationship with the world around us, through ambitious works that cross disciplinary boundaries.
  • D27/11/2024
  • CBook
  • P
  • Beepscape for Walla
    Beepscape for Walla is a simulation of a forest in nature, gathering the beep sounds of old mechanical devices. Each electronic light-sound device has a light sensor on the circuit, it makes the sound of a grass bug made of beep responding to hand-drawing animation projected by a projector.
    Data Bugs – When Interaction Design meets Explainable AI
    Data Bugs is an immersive emotional installation that makes tangible and experiential the working mechanism of a neural network, demystifying the omnipotence that is too often attributed to AI.
    The Nature of Code (p5.js) – Daniel Shiffman
    The Nature of Code is a beginner-friendly creative coding tutorial that explores a range of programming strategies for developing computer simulations of natural systems—from elementary concepts in math and physics to sophisticated machine-learning algorithms.
  • D23/04/2024
  • CBook
  • P
  • This Is Not An Artifact – Rich Pell
    Featuring hundreds of entries for collection specimens organized under the postnatural categorical matrix of Isolating, Breeding, Engineering, and Leaking, this book-as-exhibition makes the exceptional collection of the Center for PostNatural History available to a global audience for the first time.
  • D18/03/2024
  • CBook
  • P
  • Controlled Uncontrollables: SAD and the Bubble Printer
    Developed in the context of Human 2 Objects project, the main concept was to reflect the human capacity to transform natural elements and to use the human body and its spatiality as an input for interactivity. As a result, the exhibition Controlled Uncontrollables is composed of two sculptural installations in a delicate interplay of art and tec...
    Sleep Like Mountains – (Re-)discovering bodies in landscapes
    reated by Lotta Stöver, "Sleep Like Mountains" enacts a process of digital embedding and embodying. The installation measures the topography of a human body and compares it to geodata sets of Earth, searching for a most similar location, where the topography of the human body and Earth elevate and digitally situate in similar ways.
    Breeze – The decimal place, a construct of nature beyond 0 and 1
    'Breeze' is a kinetic sculpture that investigates natural and delicate movement using the materiality of papers and a digital system. It consists of 96 note papers in a 6x16 matrix and creates sequential and random movement patterns in the matrix using wind from computer cooling fans.
    PERACH – Understanding ourselves and our surroundings
    'PERACH' is a biofeedback art installation that allows visitors to 'feel' the interior electrical happenings of their plants. Perach consists of a multi-sensor IoT device along with a web platform that provides visitors with the ability to hear, and visually perceive the changes taking place inside plants.
    Perpetual Beta [encounters in open space] – Exhibition & Weekly Events
    From June 4th to July 4th, The Grey Space embarks on a large-scale experiment entitled Perpetual Beta. In close collaboration with a group of makers and the public, a new form of presentation is explored based on the principles of open source. The result is an exhibition of work-in-progress, where the public is invited to take a look, participat...
  • D23/06/2021
  • C,
  • P
  • Face Nature – Future of the head and sensory apparatus
    Created by Madeline Schwartzman, "Face Nature" is a series of experiments produced within the context of See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded (SYX), a recent publication by Madeline that looks at human perception and the sensory apparatus and questions what will be the physical future of the head and the sensory apparatus in fifty years time.
    Artificial Arcadia – Measured and adjustable landscapes
    Created by Fragmentin in collaboration with KOSMOS architects, 'Artificial Arcadia' is an interactive installation that creates a performative scenographic landscape for visitors to explore and calls them to consider how contemporary landscape entangles natural, artificial and digital realms.

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    Titles Prometheus Bound – In the pursuit of ...
    Prometheus Bound probes the gap between clean energy myths and the messy reality of algae cultivation, while also questioning the ethics of biocontrol and the labor of harvesting electricity from living species.
    , Incomputable Earth: Technology and th...
    This open access collection argues that climate breakdown represents an irreducibly incomputable problem that cannot be resolved through algorithmic optimization or cybernetic planetary management.
    , Interview with Marc Vilanova – The hi...
    Serena Cangiano meets Marc Vilanova to talk about infrasound, embodied listening, and the invisible frequencies that connect human bodies, urban infrastructures, and natural environments.
    , Glyphlora – Non-functional Symbiosis ...
    Inspired by plant emissions, and challenging human-centric ideas of language and communication, Jane Lee creates speculative glyphs derived from supersonic sounds emitted by plants under stress.
    , KIKK Festival 2025 – Rediscovering Pl...
    At KIKK Festival, the tech world felt human again. Conversations, playful installations, and three days of talks showed how creative misuse of tools becomes critique—reviving curiosity in an age overshadowed by AI noise.
    , A Non-History of Plants
    The book questions human projections and representations of the vegetal world, bringing to light the subjectivity, intelligence, and expressive abilities of plants. Tracing a visual history of plants, linking art, technology, and science, through ...
    , Elusive Sense – On The Fluid Boundari...
    In Elusive Sense, five artists propose a variety of perspectives on where we sit in the human-technology duality in the era and culture of the anthropocene. 
    , Histolysis – Pulsing in peristaltic r...
    Histolysis is a kinetic installation that engages nonhuman systems through attunement rather than control. Suspended above the floor, its root-like structure pulses with quiet, peristaltic motion.
    , Dioramas – itsgalo
    DIORAMAS is a study in world-making. The worlds made here consist of pixels and abstract forms designed to mimic some sense of nature.
    , Enter the Meadow – Claire L. Evans
    Claire beautifully captures the naivety and ignorance of us attempting to imitate life in the false pursuit of the real.
    , Komorebi – A swarm of artificial crea...
    Komorebi is a swarm of artificial creatures that make music in response to the sun, the clouds and the shadows of trees moving in the wind. The work suggests that “life” is not an exceptional property of organic life forms, but also a property of ...
    , Ipseria – Cave of intelligent slime
    Ipseria is a series of works that explore blending of realities and deconstruction and rewriting of narratives. By deploying meta-surgical method, her work serves as a scalpel to dissect anthropocentrism where the the binary of human relationships...
    , hello world – Carolin Liebl and Nikol...
    As an artist duo, Carolin Liebl and Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler create artworks, that address the reciprocal relationship between humans and technology, which goes beyond a purely functional understanding. The bodies we create to house electrical curre...
    , Liminal Ring – (Un)controllable curre...
    Liminal Ring visualizes humanity's obsession with controlling nature while exposing the limitations of such interventions. By introducing laminar flows—artificially directed streams—into naturally occurring turbulence, this project explores the bo...
    , Under Changing Skies
    Under Changing Skies is a large, digital installation comprising 364 individual windows, each displaying a 24-hour looping timelapse of the sky above London.
    , Untertage – Troika
    Technology is a driving force in contemporary life. Today, digital change does not only happen onscreen, but impacts everything from social encounters to ecology. The London-based artist group Troika explores how new technologies affect our relati...
    , Beepscape for Walla
    Beepscape for Walla is a simulation of a forest in nature, gathering the beep sounds of old mechanical devices. Each electronic light-sound device has a light sensor on the circuit, it makes the sound of a grass bug made of beep responding to hand...
    , Data Bugs – When Interaction Design m...
    Data Bugs is an immersive emotional installation that makes tangible and experiential the working mechanism of a neural network, demystifying the omnipotence that is too often attributed to AI.
    , The Nature of Code (p5.js) – Daniel S...
    The Nature of Code is a beginner-friendly creative coding tutorial that explores a range of programming strategies for developing computer simulations of natural systems—from elementary concepts in math and physics to sophisticated machine-learnin...
    , This Is Not An Artifact – Rich Pell
    Featuring hundreds of entries for collection specimens organized under the postnatural categorical matrix of Isolating, Breeding, Engineering, and Leaking, this book-as-exhibition makes the exceptional collection of the Center for PostNatural Hist...
    , Controlled Uncontrollables: SAD and t...
    Developed in the context of Human 2 Objects project, the main concept was to reflect the human capacity to transform natural elements and to use the human body and its spatiality as an input for interactivity. As a result, the exhibition Controlle...
    , Sleep Like Mountains – (Re-)discoveri...
    reated by Lotta Stöver, "Sleep Like Mountains" enacts a process of digital embedding and embodying. The installation measures the topography of a human body and compares it to geodata sets of Earth, searching for a most similar location, where the...
    , Breeze – The decimal place, a constru...
    'Breeze' is a kinetic sculpture that investigates natural and delicate movement using the materiality of papers and a digital system. It consists of 96 note papers in a 6x16 matrix and creates sequential and random movement patterns in the matrix...
    , PERACH – Understanding ourselves and ...
    'PERACH' is a biofeedback art installation that allows visitors to 'feel' the interior electrical happenings of their plants. Perach consists of a multi-sensor IoT device along with a web platform that provides visitors with the ability to hear, a...
    , Perpetual Beta [encounters in open sp...
    From June 4th to July 4th, The Grey Space embarks on a large-scale experiment entitled Perpetual Beta. In close collaboration with a group of makers and the public, a new form of presentation is explored based on the principles of open source. The...
    , Silk Pavilion II – Mediated Matter G...
    Latest in the series of groundbreaking projects by Mediated Matter Group (MIT Media Lab) is the new successor to the Silk Pavilion (2013) project, results currently on show (subject to COVID-19 restrictions) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York...
    , Face Nature – Future of the head and ...
    Created by Madeline Schwartzman, "Face Nature" is a series of experiments produced within the context of See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded (SYX), a recent publication by Madeline that looks at human perception and the sensory apparatus and qu...
    , Artificial Arcadia – Measured and adj...
    Created by Fragmentin in collaboration with KOSMOS architects, 'Artificial Arcadia' is an interactive installation that creates a performative scenographic landscape for visitors to explore and calls them to consider how contemporary landscape ent...
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