2020, simulation, manifesto, sculpture

Modular Bones™ investigates strategies for living in environments that can no longer sustain human life. It proposes a post-anthropocentric framework where biological and artificial systems co-evolve to ensure continuity, adaptation, and resilience. The project introduces a speculative system that integrates organic and synthetic matter into a dynamic, self-developing network. Drawing on principles of artificial intelligence, sensor-based feedback, and biological autonomy, Modular Bones™ envisions new modes of symbiotic living that dissolve the boundaries between the human body and its technological extensions.

At the centre of this system is Kun, a prosthetic designed to preserve and extend human intelligence. Constructed from bone, tissue, and sensors, Kun operates as a semi-autonomous interface that interacts continuously with its wearer. Through its connection to a cloud-based intelligence, it gathers, processes, and redistributes data across a collective network of similar entities.

Functioning both as body and as node, Kun exists between organism and machine — an evolving prosthesis that negotiates agency, dependence, and co-existence. It explores how wearable systems might act as mediators between living matter and artificial cognition, and how hybrid forms of existence could emerge in conditions of ecological and technological collapse.

Creator︎︎︎Maria Paneta
Scientific curation︎︎︎Ioannis Papadoniou
Sound︎︎︎NatCase