This exploration delves into the interconnected themes of the uncanny, desire, and resilience through the story of a creature that stands between the human and animal form. The creature dwells in simulated environments and its actions can be both familiar and peculiar, sometimes unpredictable and at other times routine. The protagonist navigates its existence through the complexity of these themes and opens up new and exciting possibilities to explore the limits of human perception and animal behavior and even reshape the way we understand and relate to other species.


Eva Papamargariti works with moving images, sculptures, installations, and printed materials. Her work has been exhibited in institutions and museums including the New Museum (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and MAAT (Lisbon).

2020, HD video, 00:10:50, Edition 1 of 5

This work explores the interconnected themes of uncanny, desire and resilience. The protagonist is a creature whose form stands between human and animal, exists in simulated environments and acts in ways that can be both familiar and eerie, unexpected or boring.

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The Hollow Sound of Longing

2020, HD Video, 00:00:34
Edition 1 of 1

An excerpt from The Hollow Sound of Longing, in which the protagonist dances as roses fall around them.

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Dance II

Geomancer 12

Damiana and Limestone [3D NFT version]

The Daydreaming terrace series, A

3ᗫ Ɓєαυту ᑶ⍺𐌠ᥱ𝑡𝑡ᥱ

{Specimen no. 1, Homalodisca griseoargenteata}

mother/child v1-dv1 #1/3

Dance I

Spewed up along volcanic shorelines, new compositions were first identified on Kamilo Beach by the geologist Patricia Corcoran and sculptor Kelly Jazcav. Coined plastiglomerates, these fusions were initially understood as combinations of sand and plastic sediments agglutinated by magma flows. Later, they were attributed to human hands, byproducts of campfires dotted down the garbage-strewn coastline.


Quickly, a symbolic potency amalgamated around the plastiglomerate. They were described as a potential marker of the debated Anthropocene and via Jazcav made their way into museums, including the Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Natura Artis Magistra, and the Yale Peabody Museum. As readymades they attested to a new hybridity between the planet and the human, a fusion of geological processes framed by artistic tradition. Aesthetically they fascinate, bejeweled with phosphorescent artificial colors, tinged with the pathos of being a new stratigraphic signature.


As ecological anxiety climbs, a new digital art sub-genre emerges to reflect shifting sentiments. Born from the oceanic tail-ends of vaporwave and post-internet fluidity, the “plastiglomerate class” parallels its geological forebear by washing up and awaiting discovery. As a loose classification, it is typified by the intersection of softwares, blurring together 3D scanned organic matter with wholly computational materials. A mirror to tectonic processes it undulates, ripples or pulses, implying a subtle living energy.


Often resulting in .obj files, the “plastiglomerate class” seeks a reincorporation with the natural world. Birthed via an iPhone screen, as augmented realities they merge back into basalt and are subsumed by algae, completing their bit-based life cycle.

Plastiglomerate Class

Sedimentary pixels mixed with plastic matrices.

Future / Past Fractal #2

Codex 1 - Horizon 'Ghost'

the V01D / 022-003

Keloid II

Sky Vessel

MOses' entry_0.228 fs

Hadal

Baldr

Celephais

Liquid Audio Creature

Nature generates through a complex network of interactions and processes, constantly changing and adapting, with new life forms emerging and old ones fading away. The process of generation in nature can be seen in the growth of plants from seed to maturity, the formation of new ecosystems, and the evolution of species over time. The diversity of the natural world **is a testament to the endless possibilities of generation and the ongoing process of creation; a creation that can be perceived to emanate from physical, biological, computational**, divine or ethereal beginnings, depending on your beliefs.


The beauty of generative creation is that it allows for the unexpected, the emergence of something new, something that couldn't have been preconceived. It is a reminder that the wonders of the universe can be found not only in the grand structures of the cosmos but also in the intricate and ever-evolving systems that govern its functioning. It is an ongoing exploration of the unknown, the challenging of our own limits, and the embracing of the infinite possibilities.


The generative nature of existence is a strange and perplexing thing, a labyrinthine web of paradoxes and enigmas. It is a force that brings forth new forms and structures, yet also tears down the old. It is a force that creates order and beauty, yet also breeds chaos and destruction. And yet, perhaps the true nature of a generative force is something stranger still. Perhaps it is a force that exists beyond the boundaries of good and evil, a force that is both benevolent and malevolent.

Ethereal Generative Systems

Simulating the Eternal Networks of Life and Creation.

No Adventure Land

Horizon

Hold Me

∞III

'Awakening' by Wes Viz feat. The Anix

Larry Cove

{Specimen no. 5, Coelopidium leucopterus}

“To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.”
Okorafor, Who Fears Death.

I am paying tribute to women and queer influencers, pioneers of sci-fi literature such as Octavia Butler and Ursula K. Leguin, and more recently Nnedi Okorafor and N. K. Jemisin. This Curator’s Choice is inspired by people who think outside the normative boxes of our world and explore the potential for societal changes through science fiction(s). Indeed, sci-fis is a genre that not only allows us to think of alternative worlds, other bodies, and different embodiments, it also is a means to address and criticize current political frameworks and socio-political contexts.

There’s a playfulness here in terms of perceiving Science Fiction as something uncanny, something we might find familiar and unknown at the same time.

Eva Papamargariti

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