Hybirds

2024, AR Installation

A visionary collective creates ‘Hybirds’ to store digital memories of the Earth’s substance and manufactured artefacts. ‘Hybirds’ are digital vestiges preserved for the post-Anthropocene and used as a material data bank. Visual artist Yiouli Tsatsopoulou and I co-created ‘Hybirds and the sound is designed by Uliversal.

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‘Hybirds’ are objects found during the year 2000-2023: rock, seashell, flower, electronics board, bent metal, clip, yellow wig part, broccoli, plastic, arnica cream and glass container with lid, coloured glass, plactic cube, white and yellow velcro, onion roots, metal string and ball of dried clay.

‘Hybrids’ are photographed, retouched, digitally archived in a ditial cache. A video compiles their flow in a unified cluster. The soundscape is a ten minute improvisation piece, using various hardware equipment.

‘Hybirds’ are an archaeology of the future, accessed through digital media. They represent the effort to leave a lasting legacy and ensure that our knowledge, culture, and history can be understood and appreciated by future beings, whether they are our descendants, other intelligent species, or extraterrestrial visitors.