TRIALOGUE investigates hybrid artistic-technological systems in which plant biosignals, artificial intelligence (AI), human perception, and spatial configurations are interconnected in real time. The aim of the doctoral project is not only to describe distributed cognition theoretically, but to operationalize it as an aesthetically experienceable and technically implemented system.
The project is grounded in contemporary approaches from plant research, AI research, biosemiotics, cybernetics, and posthumanist theory, particularly N. Katherine Hayles’ concept of an “Integrated Cognitive Framework,” which understands cognition as a relational, embodied, and decentralized process. Plants, AI, humans, and space are therefore not considered separate entities, but equal actors within a hybrid system of distributed agency.
At the core of the project are reciprocal feedback, coordination, and decision-making processes between biological and algorithmic systems. Plant biosignals are captured through sensory interfaces and translated in real time into audiovisual, spatial, and algorithmic processes. At the same time, TRIALOGUE investigates forms of algorithmic environmental regulation, such as adaptive control of light, climate, or temporal structures, in order to experimentally analyze conditions of decentralized agency and systemic responsiveness.
Space itself does not merely function as a form of presentation, but as an active component of the cognitive processes. Spatial arrangements, temporal delays, resonances, and medial translations influence the dynamics of the overall system and themselves become part of the investigation.
TRIALOGUE understands artistic research not as an illustration of theoretical concepts, but as the development of real experimental systems in which new forms of distributed perception, coordination, and interaction between biological and technological actors become experientially accessible and analytically reflectable.
Academic Classification / Research Field:
Architecture / Interactive Media Systems incorporating Biological and Cybernetic Processes
