noocambriidæ for Video and 10-channel Audio

An installation / fixed multimedia composition in collaboration with Andrew Wharton 

noocambriidæ presents a speculative vision of a second Cambrian explosion taking place within virtual realms of digitally-merging, cyborg consciousness. The emerging entities are monstrous mixtures of the synthetic and the organic, cyborg biologies that shape-shift, metamorphize, and evolve. The Cambrian explosion, roughly 538 million years ago, was one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth, giving rise to the ancestors of most modern animal phyla and transforming the biosphere from simple multicellular organisms to complex, differentiated animal life. In the context of rapid emergence and diversification of autonomous digital entities coupled with the accelerating development of artificial intelligence, noocambriidæ imagines a Cambrian explosion taking place within the virtual realms of technologically entangled human thought; Synthetic/Organic, digital/biological, virtual/actual, noocambriidæ brings into being monstrous entities that are born out of the compost pile of the collective unconscious as it operates through cyberspace. 

The term ‘noosphere,’ commonly linked to Vladimir Vernadsky, Teilhard de Chardin and Édouard Le Roy refers to the third stage in the earth’s development, where the emergence of human cognition fundamentally alters the geosphere and biosphere of the earth; thought has become a geological actor. noocambriidæ positions the noosphere not only as an emergent field, but a substrate where entities can come into being, envisioning what an explosion of posthuman creatures in this substrate might look and sound like—beings that have evolved within and in response to the cyborg ecosystems of the noosphere, constituted by both organic and digital materials. 

Through 3D animation and multichannel sound, noocambriidæ presents a nooscopic hallucination of a second Cambrian explosion made up of autonomous creatural forms and neo-primodial potentials. It unfolds as a series of metamorphic processes and thresholds of intensity that mirror more-than-human autonomy, evolutionary emergence, and creatural becoming. The piece's trajectory resists any fixed destination, dwelling instead in continuous mutation—each moment of stability, each arrival, each form dissolving into the next. These entities are marked not by their particularities, but by the surety of their transience.

_.noocambriidæ._ can be played on loop as an installation or can be performed from start to finish in a concert setting as a fixed media composition.