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Open-weather’s Year of Weather (YoW) explores changing relations to weather and climate as the planet warms above 1.5 degrees Celsius. It unfolds as public access to environmental knowledge is threatened by attempts to dismantle US agencies such as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), an institution that has provided satellite images to ground stations around…

Performative Ethnographies (PE) are an artistic methodology and ongoing non-disciplinary research created as a response to the multiple layers of exclusion of laypeople from spaces where advanced technology is developed, even though their bodies are affected by it.

The Call develops new protocols and materials for the creation of AI models. To train the AI, Herndon and Dryhurst have composed a songbook of hymns, singing exercises and a recording protocol, and recorded fifteen community choirs across the UK.

The Solar Share stages a form of planetary economics based on photosynthesis. This artistic provocation seeks to estimate the orders of magnitude of new solar energy income metabolized by photosynthetic organisms at a planetary scale, a process fundamental to all planetary life.

Zifzafa demonstrates the force of this sonic annexation, and features over 40 field recordings by Jawlani artists, to serve as an archive of a sonic life under threat.

The Permanent and Insatiable is a series of installations exploring the mythic tension in material science. Each installation features miniature cityscapes made from post-consumer PET plastic, submerged in transparent bioreactors where lab-grown enzymes gradually dissolve them.

Libraries are democratic places, open to everybody, and as the inscription at the entrance to Epicurus’ Garden Kêpos stated: “Stranger, your time will be pleasant here”. Bibliokepos aspires to rethink the public libraries in Seville as facilities in a climate emergency scenario. The project explores the future of existing libraries as shelters, imagining them as…

Botto is a new kind of art form: a decentralized autonomous artist existing at the intersection of machine creativity and decentralized social coordination. Each week Botto creates thousands of prompts and images employing machine learning algorithms to generate captivating digital artworks, all unedited by humans.

Destination Earth is a multi-sensory installation revealing the connection that ties atmosphere and ocean, humans and inhabitants of the sea, into a flow of interconnected motions.  Warming waters and changes in the overall water circulation are impacting sound propagation in the ocean, sea mammal migratory patterns and survival, influencing in return our climate and the…

FORMATA is a multi-sensory art installation, featuring lively and autonomous blobs within an experimental reactor crafted to simulate the conditions of an alien world with liquid formamide. The vibrant blobs that inhabit this ‘mini-planet’ are composed of abiotic fatty acids, amino acids, and hydrocarbons—echoing the organic materials found in meteorites and comets.

Godmode Epochs is a single and multiplayer AI training clicker game set among the lined shelves of an infinite, simulated supermarket. Each playthrough is a numbered “training epoch” during which players race against time to teach an AI to identify products. As players inevitably frustrate the AI, they are taken into its mind—a dungeon filled…

The GR-AI-N project seeks to harness the potential of discarded materials from the wood industry. This involves a type of digital craft that is grounded on computer vision and robotics. Post-scanning, AI-powered tools are employed to extract wood’s grain patterns, texture, imperfections. This data is used to enable unique designs that harmonize with the natural…