Eating the Sun
A ceramic dinner service tracing human sustainability back to photosynthesis
Engraved ceramic plates, essay2024
DISNOVATION.ORG
DISNOVATION.ORG is a research collective working across contemporary art, science and critical technology. Through installations, performances, publications and speculative prototypes, they turn complex eco-social issues into experimental situations. Their work investigates energy, ecology, economics and technological imaginaries, opening up futures beyond dominant narratives of growth, extraction and innovation.
Recent works
Installations, publications and speculative systems on energy, ecology and economics.
The Solar Share
An edible solar currency grown from living photosynthesis
Installation, spirulina cultivation, software2024
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene
An installation cataloguing hybrid creatures of the Anthropocene
Video essay & installation2015–2025
Life Support System
An automated micro-farm estimating ecosystem services
Automated cultivation, LED lights, camera, streaming2020
Shadow Growth
A visual audit of the social costs hidden beneath economic growth
Installation, diagrams, software, essay2021–
Post Growth Toolkit — The Game
A critical game for escaping the economic growth orthodoxy
Critical games, posters, installation2020–
Counter-Narratives of Water
A video essay following water commons through stories, science and karst landscapes
Video essay — 4K, stereo — 33'41"2024
Energy Slave Tokens
Units for converting fossil energy into human labour time
Standard weights, 3D files, poster, video2020
Post Growth Toolkit — The Interviews
Interviews on the frictions between economic growth and environmental crises
Video interviews, video installation2020–
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene — Publication
An illustrated atlas of hybrid plants, animals, minerals, fungi, and other specimens
Book, Onomatopee2021
Post Growth Prototypes
Video essays testing ecological economic models as working prototypes
CGI videos, installation2021
Selected earlier works
Critical works on technology, network culture and innovation ideologies.
Predictive Art Bot
A bot that turns media trends into speculative art concepts
Natural language processing, website, installation2015–2017
Profiling the Profilers
A sousveillance project using big tech’s own tools against itself
Big data analytics, website, installation2018–2020
Online Culture Wars
A political compass mapping online culture wars as meme cartography
Poster stack, wallpaper mural2018–2019
The Persuadables
A video exposing techniques of online influence, persuasion and manipulation
Video2019
Shanzhai Archaeology
A collection of hybrid phones from China’s technological interbreeding
Installation, collection, research, edition2015–2018
The Museum of Failures
An alternative museum focusing on the dark narratives of technology
Workshops, performances, database2016–2018
Blacklists
A directory of internet censorship, filtering and content restrictions
Publication, installation2015
The Pirate Cinema
A cinematic collage generated from peer-to-peer filesharing
Installation, live performance2012–2014
Floating Prophecies
A video collage linking science-fiction prophecies with folk drone videos
Video collage, installation2015
War Zone
Historical missile trajectories reconstructed inside Google Earth
KML trajectories, video2013–2014
Artificial Voyager
An AI reading of the Voyager Golden Records
Machine learning, t-SNE, live performance2016
