Synthetic Nature:
When Data Dreams of Moss

In an era defined by accelerating species extinction, climate emergency, and ecological instability, this exhibition explored how human-centred narratives are increasingly inadequate for understanding the world we inhabit. As nonhuman life forms assert their agency within Earth’s past, present, and future, the exhibition questioned the dominance of the “Anthropocene” and opened space for more entangled perspectives.

Bringing together works across moving image, photography, sound, installation, and performance, the exhibition examined how digital technologies are no longer neutral tools but active agents shaping perception itself. From algorithmic vision to mediated observation, technology filters, amplifies, and reconstructs the ways we encounter ecosystems. The boundary between the natural and the technological appeared fluid and porous, revealing new modes of coexistence.

Rather than offering fixed conclusions, the exhibition created multiple points of entry into imagining techno-ecological futures. The works foregrounded themes of care and control, visibility and disappearance, embodiment and mediation. Natural elements such as water, trees, light, weather, and forest environments were reconfigured through digital processes, unsettling familiar modes of seeing and sensing.

Collectively, the exhibition invited viewers to consider what coexistence might mean when nature begins to “breathe through data,” and how ecological relations are reshaped when technology becomes embedded within wider networks of life. It proposed not a solution, but an evolving landscape of questions — urging us to rethink how we perceive, inhabit, and imagine a shared planetary future.