/ˌɛm.brɪ.oʊˈlɒdʒɪk/

2024 Graduate Exhibition,           Victorian College of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)          

The installation comprised twelve screens, each displaying technogenic infusions of machine-led imagery. These filmic works were embedded parasitically within The Stables infrastructure, inhabiting the exposed hardware like an invasive presence.        

Composed of still and moving images captured through terrestrial LiDAR scanners, they were reconstituted into GAN-generated sequences bred from the same data. The machinic eye led the mechanic mind, and vice versa, creating a recursive interplay between technology and ecology.

ˌɛm – “em,” with a slight emphasis.
brɪ – “bri,” as in “bring.”
oʊ – “oh,” a long “o” sound.
ˈlɒdʒ – “loj,” with a short “o” like in “lot,” and emphasis on this syllable.
ɪk – “ik,” as in “pick.”

/ˌɛm.brɪ.oʊˈlɒdʒɪk/ occupied overlooked spaces, intertwining historical and modern infrastrucural overlays, creating a symbiotic relationship between the works and the building’s solar-powered systems. These installations mirrored the wiring, tubing, and frameworks, drawing energy from the host like a parasite to sustain the conceptual focus on hyperobjects—ecological collapse and technogenesis.

The screens, embedded within rafters, ducts, and stairwells, acted as portals to meontic space, flickering between external vitality and virtuality. They captured the shifting dynamics between organic and inorganic, transmuting ecological collapse through the lens of technogenesis. Drawing parallels to Jussi Parikka’s ideas of technological entanglement and Samuel Bainchini’s Snakeable, the works lengthy tentacular wiring snaked among cables that interlace through the infrastructure, challenging perceptions of the parastite and the epiphyte.

As viewers navigated the installations, they encountered with ecological collapse and technogenesis entwined in a mutual, parasitic relationship. These unseen forces are always present, subtly reshaping space and demanding a rethinking of boundaries between the organic, synthetic, and the meontic void. /ˌɛm.brɪ.oʊˈlɒdʒɪk/ revealed flickers of nothingness and vitality, forcing us to confront the interwoven realities of hyperobjects that shape our world.