Presentations:
Afterglow Exhibition, Gales Gallery, Toronto Feb 2025. (curated by Nina Czegledy and Joel Ong)
Memory machines: is an ongoing archival project exploring the entanglement of historical narratives and the physical storage devices within which these exist, age and percolate. The 2nd iteration in this series, Ocean Memory focuses on experiments in bio- and chemo- luminescence inspired by light as a mode of interspecies communication in the deep sea. Our work this winter involved the dinoflagellate Pyrocystis fusiformis and a deep dive into physical activation of bioluminescence in vitro through a robotic arm that was programmed to simulate wave currents.
The current experimental presentation simulates their bioluminescence through backlit particles in a Petri dish of high-density liquid that reminisces waves. This prototype has guided further experimentation in ‘seeing’ through more-than-human languages, proposing ways this animacy can encode intent, store, and variably reveal affect for organisms at microscopic scale.