The Merge

The Merge is a single-channel digital video exploring a variety of dystopian future environments and landscapes where a Material Artificial Intelligence (MAi) has been synthesized to contrast the ecological crisis. This new material-based artificial intelligence system transforms objects and materials into large hollow structures that constantly grow responding to the external atmospheric conditions, offering a shelter to humans and other species.

This video work is an introduction to the online platform: www.themerge.space a virtual environment that is developed by the artist over time to host a variety of contents including virtual exhibitions, digital artistic projects, and essays by different authors envisioning non-anthropocentric futures.

This work was realized during the ARTeCHO Fellowship program.