Living Ware Intelligence
Living Ware Intelligence examines the materiality and dis/embodiment of human data within a more-than-human environment through synthetic biology. The project explores how human information, encoded as DNA, can be inserted into living hosts such as bacteria and plants, becoming immortal within these organisms. Through controlled experiments and living artifacts, the artist aims to dramatize the dynamic between human molecular information and its non-human hosts, focusing on metabolization and construction processes where microorganisms mis/interpret human data as nutrients or use it in biofilm formation. By exploring interspecies perspectives on human knowledge and data production, the project challenges common perceptions of value, ethics, and the limitations of human viewpoints in a world of over-datafication and synthetic biology.