“MIKRO BIOCINE—Speculative Ecosystem Creation through Poetry, Film, Language Games, and Hacking” with Caos Ludd

This tutorial explores poetry, films, games, languages, and hacking to understand the living around others’ paths and the relationship and bond with microorganisms, experimenting with various free technologies and creative techniques.

Approaching knowledge from an undisciplined perspective, this tutorial explores alternative ways of understanding the living—not as a resource to be exploited or as an entity separate from what Western thought has defined as “man” or “mankind,” but as a complex network of interwoven existences. Here, co-creation, learning, feeling/thinking, theorizing, imagining, and speculating do not belong to rigid categories of knowledge; rather, they emerge through relational processes.

Through language games, experimental creative techniques, and various open-source technologies, participants will collaboratively develop an audiovisual narrative that interrogates our coexistence with microorganisms. The tutorial unfolds in two phases: first, constructing the narrative and temporal architecture; second, creating a mikrofilm and linking it to a living organism or system.

Language: English with close-captions

Caos-Ludd (they/them) is an undisciplined artist that explores the relationships and possibilities between art, complexity sciences, technologies and hackerisms. They have worked in experimental artistic laboratories and groups for the last twelve years, including Mutante Lab and the Suratómica Network. In these groups, they have created, researched and opened cultural and artistic spaces and events. They are currently working in Mikopía, an art laboratory located in Bogotá, Colombia, which is part of the Hackerspace Hackbo.
Mikropía functions as an art and complexity sciences laboratory with a libertarian, anti-colonial, ecological and communitarian focus. It also serves as a venue for non-academic pedagogical practices, as well as the memory and support of political resistance processes for the living.

This lecture is part of the Unwired Currents—Imagining Technology Otherwise free online lecture series challenging dominant narratives of design, knowledge-making, and technological progress.

The lecture series has been curated by Valentina Alcalde Gómez and Adriana Palencia from the Latin American platform Matería Oscura, alongside Maya Ober from Futuress. It is part of the Unwired Currents—Imagining Technology Otherwise larger collaborative project between the think & do tank Dezentrum and Futuress, along with the transnational collective Dreaming Beyond AI, designer and researcher Franca López Barbera, and Matería Oscura.

The program is possible thanks to a generous grant from the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.