Photo: Jürgen Buchinger

Epizoons 

Jürgen Buchinger (AT)

Generative art as catalyst of multispecies relationships

Epizoons are fictional lifeforms made out of ceramics and electronic sensors that react to their environment with changing voices and sound. The project draws inspiration from Lynn Margulis’ theory of evolution by symbiosis and Donna Haraway’s concept of “becoming with” of all lifeforms.

It explores ways of audiovisually relaying the invisible human-made changes in our environment and its effects on us and our non-human co-lifeforms and fosters awareness of our not being alone on this planet.