Amid the climate and water crises, Hybrid Ecologies: The Planetary Metabolism of AI explores water as a vital element to both AI’s metabolism and life on Earth. Grounded in research conducted in Chile, the installation recognises water’s intelligence: its flow and properties sustaining the infrastructures that enable AI. It aims to raise an urgent debate about the role of AI in a context defined by planetary boundaries and explores the possibilities of interspecies collaboration between different forms of intelligence: water, human, and technological. Hybrid Ecologies reimagines cohabitation by intertwining the natural and artificial within a framework of care and regeneration, ensuring habitability on a planet undergoing profound transformation.
Participants
MARTÍN TIRONI AND MANUELA GARRETÓN SANTIAGO, CHILE
Martín Tironi, Chile, 1979. Lives and works in Santiago, Chile.
Manuela Garretón, Chile, 1983. Lives and works in Santiago, Chile.
Authorial Collaborators
Lucas Margotta, Jorge Berríos, Pablo Garretón
Technical Collaborators
Benjamín Benavides, Pedro Garretón
Team
Jazmín Sabat, Pablo Dawson, Florencia Vildósola
Thanks
Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Supporters
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Núcleo Milenio FAIR; Viña Concha y Toro; CEDEUS; CENIA
