Organic Habitats is an ongoing project that explores the possibility of constructing diverse organic structures and architectures for microorganisms through experimentation, poetics, and imagination. This project envisions the urban territory as a complex biological organization.
In the process of "inhabiting," an infinite number of systems interact constantly, keeping it in a state of permanent motion and transformation. The emergence of new structures, architectures, and patterns is the result of intimate connections between space and its inhabitants. As a potential dialogue between the territory and its various ways of life, based on a series of interventions in public space, recording and research materials, and the development of different technologies and electronic devices, research is underway into how various microorganisms inhabit and modify the territory during this process. Thus, these organic habitats, dynamic and sensitive to their environment, intervene and redraw the territory with infinite, possible patterns generated by organic growth itself and the proliferation of diverse microorganisms.
This project was carried out as part of the Talent Development Network's Test_Lab Summer Sessions residency program, in co-production with the V2_Institute of the Unstable Media and the Master of Electronic Arts at UNTREF. These habitats, dynamic and sensitive to their environment, intervene and redraw the territory with infinite, possible patterns generated by organic growth itself and the proliferation of diverse microorganisms.
Wednesday, April 13 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, April 14, Friday, April 15, Saturday, April 16 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Gabriela Munguía is a Mexican artist, researcher, and educator whose work sits at the intersection of electronic art, bioart, ecology, and experimental technologies. She creates sound, light, robotic, and interactive installations that explore the relationships between living beings, natural phenomena, and technical systems. She is particularly interested in invisible life forms, interspecies exchange, and ways of making the forces that traverse territories perceptible.