Cybernetic Ecologies

Cybernetic Ecologies is a data driven, hybrid installation, utilising real-time local weather data, feedback loops and interactive technologies in order to recontextualise posthumanist ideologies through a cybernetic lens within the digital era. Primarily this line of inquiry is concerned with embodiment and the hybridisation or dissolution of otherness dividing the digital, the self and the environment, by means of understanding surfaces, specifically our landscapes, as informational patterns and positioning the skin as a membrane where data resides.

In a rigorous exploration of rhizomatic networks, this work explores the fluidity and interconnectedness existing between human and non-human systems, drawing parallels between data infrastructures and invasive plant species; contextualising the relationship between them and their surrounding environments as a cybernetic system in itself. Developing upon this speculative approach in reconciling cybernetics and posthumanism, Cybernetic Ecologies examines the landscape as a prosthesis of memory, extending both human and machine consciousness to become embedded within the natural environment, facilitating the emergence of one larger ecosystem, a networked reality produced by ubiquitous data flows.

Artist Name/s (Pronoun/s): Serena Devereux

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