PHYGITAL ORGANISMS

During the Anthropocene, an era marked by irreversible human impact on ecosystems, non-human creatures are now utilizing and reinterpreting human-generated waste materials and technologies in their evolutionary processes: hermit crabs use plastic shells, and birds use anti-bird spikes to build nests.

But what will happen in the long term, when digital technologies and hardware are no longer solely human? How will discarded physical and digital technologies impact evolutionary dynamics?

These components enable altered electrical signals, allowing biostructures, both silicon- and carbon-based, to emerge. Organisms grow in submerged environments, camouflaged among others, with long conductive filaments harvesting signals for processing in silicon glands that are now part of their organisms.