Silvery Trail (2024) traces the ghostly return of the lenok fish, once believed extinct in South Korea due to mining pollution and habitat collapse. It follows a journey through Daehyeon-ri, a village shadowed by an abandoned zinc mine. Despite environmental degradation, a genetically distinct lenok population quietly survived. Drawing from the site’s ghostlike atmosphere, empty housing blocks, a faint waterfall, and a school-turned-campsite, Oh reflects on ecological memory and resilience. The work questions narratives of extinction and revival, staging a poetic tension between artificial restoration and overlooked continuities in more-than-human survival.

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Serin Oh is a visual artist based in Seoul. Trained in Oriental Painting and Metalwork, her interdisciplinary practice encompasses video, sculpture, and text. Drawing on field research and material experimentations, Oh explores tensions between original and replica, constructing poetic assemblages that oscillate between critique and irony.

Shadow Planet (2023) reinterprets NASA’s Mars Image Archives, a vast collection of data produced by rovers, drones, and satellites to map the planet with scientific precision. Minha Park instead focuses on what resists this mapping: glitches, blind spots, and ghostly dust storms. The film blends archival footage and fiction to explore a planetary refusal of visibility. When Martian dust storms obscure the sun, the rovers’ cameras fail, creating dark interruptions. Park asks whether Mars shields itself from machinic vision, a self-defensive opacity against cartographic control. Shadow Planet stages this tension as a poetic conflict between image, data, and planetary autonomy.

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Minha Park is a visual artist based in Seoul. Her research-driven practice spans film, sound, installation, and artist books, merging documentary and speculative strategies. Park investigates sensory systems and residual narratives within media, science, and history, revealing latent memories and challenging dominant perceptions of technology, truth, and visibility.

Staring at the Sun is a “sci-fi documentary” exploring the dark side of solar geoengineering: the deliberate, large-scale modification of the Earth’s climate systems by manipulating the influence of the sun. Set globally across the Louisiana Bayou to the Arctic Circle, Wyoming to Gstaad, and from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia to the palm oil plantations of Indonesia, this work examines geoengineering proposals that are currently undergoing research and development in both the United States and Europe, as well as current evolutions in climate modeling and digital twin technology.

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Alice Bucknell is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Focused on creating cinematic universes within game worlds, their work has appeared internationally at Ars Electronica, transmediale, Venice Architecture Biennale, Gray Area, Singapore Art Museum, and Serpentine in London, among others.

CODEX ENTROPIA is a cautionary epic created from found anaglyph images. Addressing the entanglement of biological life forms, computational data, and political ideology, the film narrates an alternative history of an ancient civilization that develops complex animal computing technologies and stores information in landscapes. The original music and sound design by Jason Martin positions ghosts as recordings, and recordings as ghosts.

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Richard Pell is the founder and director of the Center for PostNatural History (Pittsburgh, USA), an organization dedicated to life-forms that have been intentionally and heritably altered through domestication, selective breeding, tissue culture, or genetic engineering. In the past he founded the internationally acclaimed art and engineering group The Institute for Applied Autonomy.

Bliss Point plunges us into the ever-accelerating rhythm of food supply and the emergence of new techno-capitalist processes. The film guides us from dark kitchens and food advertising sets to AI-managed warehouses. Drawing from the concept of optimal palatability, Bliss Point reveals the entanglement of automation and human labour, and the ways in which the aesthetics and the politics of food intersect. Together with Future Foods (2020) and Agrilogistics (2022), it completes a trilogy on scopic food regimes. The trilogy is currently on show at the 5th Industrial Art Biennial.

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Gerard Ortín Castellví is an artist, filmmaker and researcher currently based in London. His work has been shown in venues such as Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Fundació Joan Miró, Centre Georges Pompidou, Anthology Film Archives, Venice Architecture Biennale, Cinéma du Réel and Berlinale.

Cemile Sahin’s ROAD RUNNER (2025) envisions a dystopian future ruled by killer drones, blending cinematic storytelling with drone footage, faux commercials, animation, and video game aesthetics. The work follows Bêrîtan as she attempts to rescue her sister from captivity in a parallel Virtual Reality. Drawing from games like GTA and Counter Strike, ROAD RUNNER fuses narrative strategies from film, gaming, and social media. Its hybrid, fast-paced visual language echoes TikTok’s immediacy and gaming’s militaristic intensity, offering a sharp reflection on digital captivity, resistance, and the blurred boundaries between entertainment and control in contemporary screen cultures.

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Cemile Sahin is a visual artist based in Berlin. Working across film, photography, sculpture, and literature, her practice navigates the intersections of text and image. Sahin draws on the fragmented formats of TV series and internet media to explore narrative construction, exposing the shifting perspectives and coded nature of historical storytelling.

In 2024, Elon Musk’s $5 billion Neuralink startup successfully implanted a brain chip into a 30 year old quadriplegic’s brain. However, down the line Musk asserts that we will be able to communicate with each other using only thoughts via brainchip without resorting to language. Buckle up for a crazy trip into neurotechnologies, thoughts exploitation and body chemistry extractivism, following master linguist and lyrical genius Nicki Minaj as she ponders on the ethical, cultural and social implications of the devaluing of “stupid words”, as they will be replaced by superior “consensual telepathy.”

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Daniel Felstead is an academic and strategist whose practice focuses on the overlap of fashion, technology and culture. He is a course leader at the London College of Fashion and co-founder of Emergence of Tomorrow, an online discussion room and community think tank. He produced works for the BBC, Google, Tate, and V&A Museum.

Jenn Leung is an educator and technical artist whose work focuses on game engine simulations, agent-based modeling, and real-time streaming technologies. Her work has been featured on Epic Games Innovation Lab and Ars Electronica, TANK Magazine, DIS, among many others. She currently lectures at London College of Fashion.