Statement

This research-creation project proposes to create cybryonts- a symbioses between mosses (bryophytes), cybernetic sculptures, and microbial fuel cells, in short, creatures of the Anthropocene, as a way to problematize its very notions. Our ultimate goal, (quite unrealistic today) is the production of a closed system of power and metabolic co-dependencies between living mosses and sculpture with the help of the microbial fuel cells. We are focusing on two main research questions: (1) what is the future of the bipolar bryophytes, in a time of global warming? And (2) What are, concretely, the possibilities of producing cybryonts? We will tackle these questions within a theoretical framework hybridizing Studies of Science and Technology (SST), Art, and critical making.