[EUDigitalDeal] WHERE DOGS RUN: ‘Kerosene Chronicles. Greta-Fungus’

𝗢𝗱𝗽𝗿𝘁𝗷𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝘇𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘃𝗲 // 𝟭𝟲. 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗼𝗯 𝟮𝟬𝗵
𝗥𝗮𝘇𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘃𝗮 // 𝟭𝟲. 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗱𝗼 𝟵. 𝗷𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 @𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗮 𝗞𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮, 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗼𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗷𝗲𝘃𝗮 𝟭 (𝟰. 𝗻𝗮𝗱.)

Projekt ‘Kerosene Chronicles. Greta-Fungus’ je drugi del trilogije, s katero umetniška skupina Where Dogs Run raziskuje simbiozo med tehnofilno kerozinsko glivo (Amorphotheca resinae), stroji in ljudmi. V prvem projektu, ki smo ga v Galeriji Kapelica gostili v letu 2024, so se avtorji osredotočili na razmerje med glivo in štirimi mobilnimi robotskimi agenti, v katerih je gliva, živeča v letalskem gorivu (kerozin), vplivala na dramaturgijo med roboti, ki so si kradli z glivo okuženo gorivo. V novem projektu pa so zasnovali hibridnega virtualnega agenta umetne inteligence, ki se zlagoma razvija skozi biokibernetični vmesnik (na glivo vplivajo podatki s spleta). Model limbičnega modela umetne inteligence, ki temelji na biološki povratni zanki (biofeedback), fiziološke podatke odzive glive prevaja v »razpoloženje«, s katerim se usmerja vedenje digitalnega agenta, oblikuje spremembe njegovega virtualnega telesa in določa čustveni ton odnosa med glivo in svetom.

V biokibernetski situaciji se podatki o dogodkih, ki imajo visok ekološki odtis, zbirajo v realnem času – statistika letalskega prometa, pomorski transport nafte, nesreče, razlitja, politični premiki, migracijski tokovi – in vplivajo na glivo prek sprememb v svetlobnem in kemičnem okolju. Ti vnosi oblikujejo virtualno ekološko senzibilizirano politično persono, ki posreduje perspektivo organizma, katerega položaj v našem svetu spominja na migranta s fluidno spolno in rasno identiteto, ki se nenehno prilagaja nestanovitnim razmeram.

Ta postavitev, ki vključuje parazitsko kerozinsko glivo, predstavlja vmesni korak k vzpostavitvi biokibernetičnega hibrida, ki bo v nadgradnji projekta (3.0) združeval kerozinsko glivo, človeško DNK in razvijajočega se agenta umetne inteligence. Tak, razširjen gensko modificiran hibrid naj bi še poglobil prepletenost bioloških, tehnoloških in sociopolitičnih sistemov ter razširil prisotnost glive v digitalna okolja.

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Programiranje: Sergey Mashkov, Ruslan Grokhovetsky / Znanstvena svetovalca: Anastasia Krivushina, Rita Ivanchenko / Komunikacijska podpora: Evgeny Prigorodov

Delo je nastalo v sklopu evropskega projekta European Digital Deal, ki ga sofinancirajo EU – Ustvarjalna Evropa, Ministrstvo za kulturo RS in Mestna občina Ljubljana – Oddelek za kulturo

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𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 // 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝗮𝘁 𝟴 𝗽.𝗺.
𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 // 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 – 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 @𝗞𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆, 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗼𝘇𝗮𝗿𝗷𝗲𝘃𝗮 𝟭 (𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿)

The project ‘Kerosene Chronicles. Greta-Fungus’ is the second part of a trilogy with which the artistic collective Where Dogs Run explores the symbiosis between the technophilic kerosene fungus (Amorphotheca resinae), machines, and humans. In the first project, which we hosted at the Kapelica Gallery in 2024, the authors focused on the relationship between the fungus and four mobile robotic agents, where the fungus, living in jet fuel (kerosene), influenced the dramaturgy between the robots as they exchange or stole fuel infected with the fungus from each other. In the new project, however, they have designed a hybrid virtual artificial intelligence agent that gradually develops through a biocybernetic interface designed to bridge fungal and human worldviews. The limbic system model of the AI agent built with biofeedback translates the fungus’s physiological data and reactions into a “mood” that directs the digital agent’s behaviour, shapes the changes in its virtual body, and defines the emotional tone of the fungus-world relations.

In the biocybernetic situation, data on events with a high ecological footprint are collected in real time—air traffic statistics, maritime oil transport, accidents, spills, political shifts, migration flows—and influence the fungus by altering its light and chemical environment. These inputs are evaluated on a benefit-harm scale, forming a virtual ecologically sensitized political persona that mediates the perspective of an organism whose position in the human world resembles that of a migrant with a fluid gender and racial identity, constantly adapting to volatile conditions.

This installation, which includes an unmodified parasitic kerosene fungus, represents an intermediate step toward creating a biocybernetic hybrid that will, in the project upgrade (3.0), combine the kerosene fungus, human DNA, and a time-evolving artificial intelligence agent. Such an expanded genetically modified hybrid is intended to further deepen the entanglement of biological, technological, and sociopolitical systems and expand the fungus’s presence across digital environments.

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Programming: Sergey Mashkov, Ruslan Grokhovetsky
Scientific consultants: Anastasia Krivushina, Rita Ivanchenko
Communication support: Evgeny Prigorodov

The artwork has been developed within the European Digital Deal project, co-financed by the EU – Creative Europe, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana – Department of Culture.