Afterlives-Chimeras: Wetland Carbonized Memories

Clarissa Ribeiro

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – WORKSHOP
Electronic Language International Festival

Afterlives-Chimeras: Wetland Carbonized Memories – Brazil

Afterlives-Chimeras: Wetland Carbonized Memories reimagines ancient Egyptian animal mummification through the lens of ecological tragedy. Inspired by Brazilian swamps and the destruction of wildlife caused by agribusiness, mining, and the steel industry, the project uses AI (Krea.AI and Meshy.AI) to create hybrid creatures from images of charred animals. The chimeras, 3D printed with PLA, reminiscent of mummified linen, symbolize loss, transformation, and the urgency of ecological balance.

BIO

Clarissa Ribeiro is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at USP and former Director of Roy Ascott’s Technoetic Arts Studio in Shanghai. A PhD holder with a Fulbright postdoctoral degree, she intersects art, science, and technology in morphogenetic practices, adopting animism as a way to navigate ecologies as cosmologies.

カロリナ・ソアベッカ
Каролина Собечка
Wildlife
FILE FESTIVAL

At night a projection from a moving car is shone on the buildings. The car projects a video of a tiger whose movements are programmed to correspond to the speed of the car: as the car moves, the tiger runs along it speeding up and slowing down with the car, as the car stops, the tiger stops also. The framerate of the movie corresponds to the speed of the wheel rotation, picked up by a sensor. The viewers are elevated from the everyday reality through this element of fantasy into a world with more dimensions, possibilities and perhaps beauty.

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“We are fully aware that architecture is this serious and profound craft with a long culture and tradition. You see that when we architects find reference for our projects in art, philosophy, literature or nature. For this project, we also looked at art to find reference. But not at Michaelangelo or Dali. Rather we looked at cartoon characters of Sesame Street or Minions. We took a playful look at this project and wanted to create a rather unique character than a conventional building. A quirky looking character that becomes part of the wildlife of a forest. I think this quirkiness can create feelings and emotions. And maybe these are attributes in architecture that are missing these days.”

“Science,Fiction”

Through a combination of the temporal qualities of video and the architectural dimension of its physical installation, Thater’s work explores the artifice of its own production and its capacity to construct perception and shape the way we think about the world through its image. Natural diversity, wildlife, and conservation have been persistent themes in the artist’s work, and she has dedicated herself to an examination of the varied kinds of relationships humans have constructed with animals. While her in-depth studies of ecosystems and animal behavior propose observation as a kind of understanding in itself, her ethical position is implicit in the work, which, while subtly political, provides views of the sublime in all its incarnations—stunning, beautiful, and simultaneously terrifying.

オラファー·エリアソン
اولافور الياسون
奥拉维尔·埃利亚松
אולאפור אליאסון
ОЛАФУР ЭЛИАССОН
earth perspectives
The earth as viewed from above the SouthPole, one of nine-part series
The pole is at the heart of the virtually uninhabited continent of Antarctica, a vital ice-covered wildlife haven that is under threat from rapid warming and ice loss.