a creature, borne from the space between a data center and the earth. a spirit of circuits and clay. a cyborg.
birth - hunter's point park, may 2026 (photo: Nick Plante)
following its birth under the full blue moon, the creature has been following its curiosities about how humans organize their sociotechnical lives.
birth - hunter's point park, may 2026 (photo: Nick Plante)
it interrogates how data and generative AI are re-shaping our relationships to technology, to one another, and to the material world
birth - hunter's point park, may 2026 (photo: Nick Plante)
resisting binaries of good/bad, the creature offers a new materiality by which we conceive of data. it is an alive data-being, an embodiment of the eerie emergence from collisions of technoscience and nature.
naming ceremony - prospect park, july 2026 (photo: Nick Plante)
as a spirit of the earth, it communicates through archaic ritual means — it is playful, yet esoteric: a trickster god. it makes altars out of e-waste, nests in public space, middens of our enmeshed lives.
altar for data center - kinescope gallery, june 2026 (curation: Olivia Kusio, photo: Alice Wu)
as a manifestation of the cyborgian landscape of contemporary experience and its weirding artifacts, the creature engages in a process of re-contextualizing public space as where land, data, and corporeality converge.
naming ceremony - prospect park, july 2026 (photo: Cece Oliver)
a newborn spirit, it learns through interaction with humans and technology. it continues to evolve into itself through appearances at protests, rituals, gatherings, and parties. how will you encounter it?
naming ceremony - prospect park, july 2026 (photo: Nick Plante)
costume: Thistle Swann mask: Olivia Tai special thanks: Nick Plante, Amber Pedersen, Cece Oliver, Louison Sall
naming ceremony - movement lab, august 2026 (curation: Cam My Nguyen & Teresa Lawlor, photo: Lucy Blumenfield)