Morphology of Kinesis
interactive installation, video
Authors:
Agnieszka Kiejziewicz
Renusha Athugala
Surendheran Kaliyaperumal
Exhibitions:
INVENTX Creative Exhibition 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; awarded GOLD for the creative showcase project at the iNVENTX Invention Competition.
VNxSymposium, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Morphology of Kinesis tells the story of a micro-ecosystem that, through real-time AI and audience engagement, can bloom into limitless digital forests. It asks about the digitally generated feelings and possibilities of the multiplication of our experience of nature through emerging technologies. It also offers a reflection on the nature of language and how we can describe our initial imagery and expectations through a single prompt. The project draws on the bio-art lineage of Eduardo Kac (2005), who treats living matter as both medium and message. His works cover entanglements between humans and other organisms, which inspired us to rethink this ethos in the context of connecting a real terrarium with AI-driven augmentation and user interaction. We also refer to biophilic design, understood as a human inclination to seek a connection with nature and, subsequently, a translation of this need into the language of design and creative practice (Kellert, 2008). Locally, we are immersed in a discourse about sustainability and the development of green cities, minimal-energy computation and micro-scale habitats in the context of Southeast Asia. Conceptually, we are influenced by the post-naturalist philosophies of Steven Vogel, which reframe nostalgia for pristine environments as an invitation to re-imagine nature within human-shaped worlds.
2025, Performance Vietnam
Morphology of Kinesis.
Ecoperformance in the context of sustainable social justice and environmental learning
Morphology of Kinesis is a performative exploration of regenerative futures through a biophilic, real-time AI-driven installation that transforms a living terrarium into a morphing visualization, inviting audiences to reimagine the act of creation of natural micro-worlds collaboratively. Grounded in sustainable social justice principles it brings a reflection on the equitable distribution of nature’s emotional benefits through technology. By engaging with AI-generated imagery, viewers become co-authors of endless digital habitats. The proposed performance will feature the act of cooperative creation, as participants will work together to create a piece of art using soil, water, paper, writing, drawing, or other forms of communication in response to the draft manifesto that will be distributed beforehand. The performative character of this meeting will be demonstrated by the audience reflecting on the digitally presented installation, not the artists.
Aligned with sustainability and regenerative futures theme, the presented concept frames sustainability as creative regeneration rather than conservation alone. It creates a deep sensorial experience, focusing on revising the possibilities of sustainable eco-aesthetic designs. The aim of the performance is to evoke the sense of eco-nostalgia and propose new, intimate, and individual possibilities for collective shaping of healthier futures. The presented components – video of the installation + the possibility of contributing to the manifesto- function as a collaborative canvas: making spectators co-authors of the concept. In terms of identity, the performance foregrounds our role as custodians who can re-envision nature into shared possibilities.
Read Manifesto