To culminate my mentorship as a ‘Sandbox Advisor’ to project groups A (Re)imitation of Life and Glory Mold, I moderated a panel with Dan Coppen & Domenica Landin and Mel Francis and Leonie Rae Gasson to explore their prototyping journey with non-human intelligences, speculative worldbuilding and technology.
We discussed how both the groups’ prototypes revolve around speculative futures, imaginings, and world building; how the ‘characters’ of their works are collaborative non-human intelligences in the interactive installations, and the R&D processes they experience in their prototypes’ journey.
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