BECOMING WITH

ENCOUNTERS IN AN AUGMENTED GARDEN

exhibited in May 2022, at the Resilienze Festival in Bologna 

Gardens are places of ongoingness of connection and encounters and open up to the possibility of collective practices of thinking and making. Announcing their artifice by requiring the introduction of architectural (non-natural) elements, gardens offer spaces for multispecies Worlding.

Becoming-with-human explores human and non-human encounters in an augmented garden contact zone. It creates a multiuser and multisensory extended reality experience in which the human body become-with a fabulative AI-generated ecology. Becoming-with-human is a place to slow down, change pace, and get entangled in the environment, natural and artificial, digital and physical, hosting novel digital becomings.