This body of work traces a shift from embodied perception to fully operational cosmotechnic systems. Early commissions such as META (2019) established the body as an interface, relocating knowledge from visual observation to sensory experience. Subsequent works, including Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s BlackTransSea, expanded this into ethical systems where decision-making actively restructures the world. With In the Eye of a Dream, embodied transmission extends into archival and temporal dimensions. Recent commissions mark a decisive move into complex worlding systems: Anna Bunting-Branch’s Dose Makes the Poison develops narrative recursion; Jack Ky Tan’s A Ceremony for the Unborn Future activates cosmology through ritual and material interaction; Sarah Al-Sarraj’s Isthmus: Ancient River computes environmental relations; and Kinnari Saraiya’s The View from Above integrates real-time data to generate continuously evolving environments. Across these works, cosmology and technics are inseparable, and knowledge is not represented but produced through interaction, recursion, and participation.
The Mechatronic Library is proud to financially support and foster such means of production, remaining at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, and sharing the results.