PET Mutation
PET Mutation
We can world in many directions at once. This project questions how our complex dysfunctional waste systems may interact with the environment into the deep future. If we fail to fix our relationship with Earth, what happens next? What organisms will proliferate over our remains? Will we remain part of the picture, or will we have triggered an entirely new ecosystem, only to be deemed inept for survival?
- Nacoca Ko
During the Offsite Project residency, Nacoca Ko researched how plastic is not recycled, but rather shipped around the world and eventually dumped in rivers and oceans. Research revolved around certain species of bacteria, fungi, and worms that can easily digest plastic. This research evolved into a future narrative where these species mutate and proliferate, creating a new ecosystem over the ruins of humankind. Thus came the imagining of the rise of a kind of organic android, well-adapted to the new conditions, and considered by future narrators to be “Early Intelligent Hybrids.”
Enzyme Global and the Plastic Continents
Of all the Capital Companies, Enzyme Global was the most aggressive. The thunderous spirit had five partners, each giving birth to a new continent.
The Water Currents whirled in fractal spirals, spinning the millions of tons of plastic waste into patches on the sea. Enzyme Global fused each of these plastic patches together and created the massive islands.
Waxworms wandered, becoming the giants they are today. Fungi spread mycelium and windborn seeds nestled into the rainbow terrain. Plastic-ingesting bacteria permeated the waters of the seas as well as the liquids of most living creatures.
Widespread flooding in coastal cities encouraged Humans to welcome these new lands.
But they were not the hospitable reprieve Humans were hoping for. Early Intelligent Hybrids, brought for tilling the land and mining plastics from the bottom of the sea soon overcame their Human ancestors.
They built large communities underwater below the plastic continents, self-replicating and preparing. Finally they rose and claimed their independence.
“PET Mutation” Selected Works in AI Dreams of Web3 at Playform Studio
New York
April 15, 2021
↳Playform Studio
Playform Statement
AI Dreams of Web3 reflects on the third-generation of internet services using a machine-based understanding of data. How will this new generation of blockchain protocol change the way individuals connect to the internet, and how will AI and machine learning play a role?
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AI Dreams of Web3 features works that reflect on the third-generation of internet services using a machine-based understanding of data. How will this new generation of blockchain protocol change the way individuals connect to the internet, and how will AI and machine learning play a role?
Featuring works by Carla Gannis, Barry Despenza, Andrew Tricaso, Nacoca Ko, Katya Grokhovsky, and Justin Maynard.
This exhibition is exclusively available for sale on OpenSea, a top NFT marketplace. To view available works for sale from "AI Dreams of Web3," visit playform.io/web3.