Synthetic Nature is a hypothetical exhibition featuring artists who explore the intersection of technology and biology, challenging our understanding of what “nature” means in an era shaped by AI and biotechnology. The exhibition delves into AI generated ecosystems, bio integrated systems, and hybrid organisms, blurring the boundaries between the natural and the artificial.
The design of the project merges organic forms with digital patterns, symbolizing how technology reconstructs and reinterprets nature. Through speculative installations, interactive landscapes, and digital forensics, the exhibition envisions a future where evolution is no longer shaped by time, but by algorithms.
Synthetic Nature invites viewers to reconsider their definitions of life, intelligence, and ecosystems in a world where nature is not merely observed, but designed, programmed, and reimagined by machines.
01 Interactive Installatin
Living Letters is an interactive installation that explores the connection between humans and synthetic environments. Inspired by ecology, it uses sensors, cameras, and generative typography to create a system that breathes, grows, and resets in response to touch, motion, and presence.
Here, letters act less like symbols and more like living organisms, reactive, fragile, and aware. The goal is not control, but coexistence. In this space, interaction becomes dialogue, and nature is reimagined through code.
02 Interaction Flow
Living Letters is built with Processing, computer vision, and color detection, creating a responsive typography system that reacts to human presence and touch.
Step 1 – Activation A webcam detects proximity. As users approach, the letters begin to “breathe,” expanding based on their distance and energy.
Step 2 – Evolution When users touch physical materials under a second camera, the system detects color shifts. If the match drops, the letters grow, stretching outward in response to that touch. Step 3 – Reset After 2–3 seconds of no interaction, the system resets, and the letters return to their original form, ready to respond again.
This closed loop system mimics natural rhythms of tension and release, growth and decay, transforming text into a living structure. Rather than direct control, the audience enters a soft feedback loop, co-existing with language as it shifts, breathes, and remembers.
