Description
This SPARKS session treats animism as a way of knowing and making relations with a more-than-human world. Drawing on Nurit Bird-David’s notion of animism as a relational epistemology, and on perspectivist approaches that treat worlds as ontologically plural and situated, the session considers how creative practices might reopen and complicate animist ways of sensing, valuing, and coexisting. Instead of locating mind in isolated systems, we focus on how the convergence of artificial and biological intelligence already enacts cognition as a shared, relational process. Discussions of techno-animism and digital animism describe how technological objects become partners in distributed agency, memory, and care. Artists and designers are in a key position to shape how these relations look and feel, and to question which cosmologies they reproduce or transform.We invite digital artists, architects, designers, filmmakers, performers, and urban practitioners whose work revisits animism in relation to computational media. Possible works include AI driven installations that treat models as partial perspectives rather than omniscient tools; architectures that engage local cosmologies and more-than-human neighbors; game worlds and XR environments that stage perspectival shifts between different beings; and films or essayistic practices that experiment with cosmotechnics as a way to mediate between disparate perspectives, technology, and locality. Animism Revisited aims to gather practitioners who explore these questions in concrete works, protocols, and environments, opening shared spaces to think and feel how new technologies might support older and emerging ways of relating across worlds.
| Period | 29 May 2026 |
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| Event type | Seminar |
| Degree of Recognition | International |