XENOFORMS:

Abstract

Xenoforms is an interdisciplinary work that integrates the areas of artifcial intelligence, robotics, synthetic biotechnologies, and architecture, with the purpose of refecting on machine agency and the colonization of the physical space. Xenoforms are machinegenerated synthetic prototypes intended to act as speculative augmentation entities that mutate, expand and take full control of an architectural host, mirroring colonization strategies mainly observed in the practices of parasitic organisms. The work features a robotic agent that acts as a laboratory researcher pursuing a never-ending quest for identifying the form and properties of the fttest synthetic candidate, one that will successfully achieve architectural augmentation. This installation highlights the anticipated moment when computational systems defne self-established goals and motivations and asks us to consider the symbiotic conditions that are expected to be formed between physical objects, biological organisms, synthetic technologies, and artifcially-intelligent entities.