Synocene — beyond the Anthropocene

A collaborative work that has resulted in a series of citizen engagement workshops, a spatial sound installation that explores a de-centered view of our anthropocentric experience of the natural world, and a scientific paper about how AI perceives nature
Artistic collaboration: Sam Nester, trumpet player, composer and sound artist
Scientific collaboration: Isabelle Hupont-Torres, AI specialist, and Lucia Iglesias Blanco, Policy Officer at the European Commission Directorate-General for Environment
Development of the AI interface for the workshops and the fog machine and lights programme for the installation: Sylvie Tissot
The project has been developed as part of part of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) SciArt Resonances IV programme and the VOICE project
Group exhibition NaturArchy: Towards a Natural Contract at iMAL — Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology, Brussels | 2024
Article De-Anthropocentralising Human-Nature-AI Interaction — ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems | 2024
Workshops with local communities in 3 European forests (Natura 2000 protected sites): Glengarriff Woodland – Ireland; The Sonian Forest – Belgium; Ulvenhout Forest – The Netherlands | 2023/2024
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