INTERSPECIFICS (INT)

ARTWORK: Codex Virtualis_Genesis

Codex Virtualis_Genesis is a triptych audio-visual installation by Interspecifics. Through sound and images, visitors are invited on an aesthetic journey through an algorithmic ecosystem generated from hybrid bacterial-AI organisms.

In the first panel, a taxonomy of generated organisms, in their most simple form, is represented within a three-dimensional space. A selective AI navigates and chooses one organism which moves on to the second panel displaying the evolutionary history of the selected organism. In the third panel, a three-dimensional rendering of the organism appears with a name referring to its ancestry and segments of its synthetic genome. Within this network, new forms of life keep emerging wrapped by a bioacoustic soundscape manifesting the flows of information in the computational ecosystem.

Following humanity’s age-old quest for automata (Greek: self-acting), the work imagines new ways of living together – of deep interspecific relations between artificial and organic life forms – that might enhance our future possibilities of survival. 

Interspecifics is an artistic research bureau founded in Mexico City in 2013. In their work, they use sound and custom-made hardware to explore biosignals and geometrical patterns in living organisms as a form of non-human communication. During Struer Tracks, Interspecifics will present the audio-visual work Codex Virtualis_Genesis, an aesthetic journey through an algorithmic ecosystem generated from hybrid bacterial-AI organisms. Framing the dynamics and processes in this system, collaboration and exchange become valued in the quest for diversity and survival in biological as well as mechanical life.