Ars Electronica Festival · 2019
Confronting Vegetal Otherness - Skotopoiesis, Phytoteratology, Strange Encounters
by Špela Petrič
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 2019
In 2019, the Prix Ars Electronica jury recognised “Confronting Vegetal Otherness - Skotopoiesis, Phytoteratology, Strange Encounters” by Špela Petrič (Artificial Life & Intelligence) with an Award of Distinction. Špela Petrič has 2 more works in this atlas.
To investigate the consequences of a biotechnological and computational framing of life, the triptych *Confronting Vegetal Otherness* grounds the heteronomous human condition through risky relations with organisms traditionally thought to already exist in a state of environmental dependency, without an interiority or…
About Špela Petrič
Špela Petrič (SI) BSc, MA, PhD, is a Slovenian new media artist and former scientific researcher currently based between Ljubljana and Amsterdam. Her practice is a multi-species endeavor, a composite of natural sciences, wet media, and performance.
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