Reimagining Machines for a Sustainable Future
This video art project explores how machines – long associated with extraction, exploitation, and environmental degradation – can be reimagined as agents of care, empathy, and sustainability. Drawing from Yuk Hui’s philosophy of cosmotechnics, the work challenges the dominant Western technological paradigm by speculating on alternative futures where technology emerges from diverse cosmologies, ecological ethics, and cultural narratives. Through hybrid visual languages and multispecies perspectives, the film proposes machines that communicate with non-human intelligences, embody organic or symbiotic forms, and participate in rituals of maintenance and repair. Blending critical theory with experimental aesthetics, this project envisions post-anthropocentric futures in which art and philosophy co-create a transformed, inclusive understanding of what technology can be.