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Cesca is joining with an existing team but looking for specific complementary skills to realize her vision. She is seeking:

• Visual Designers to shape the aesthetic depth of the project.

• Technical Alchemists to bridge the gap between concept and interaction.

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Cesca explores the tension between “upgrading” and “becoming.” She challenges the mainstream view of the future human as a mere checklist of efficiency, cognition, and control. Her vision pulls attention back to the unquantifiable—depth, responsibility, and the right to be imperfectly human. She asks: If we can redesign minds, bodies, and societies, what do we owe the parts of us that don’t scale, such as grief, wonder, intimacy, and slowness? Her latest work explores these themes through experiential design, providing a counter-narrative to the drive for technological optimization.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a becoming being. For Cesca, this means acknowledging that our evolution is not just a technological upgrade but a deeper commitment to the parts of our humanity that cannot and should not be quantified or automated.

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Silvie Claes and Srix Sriramkumar are joining as an existing team and looking for specialized collaborators to turn their concept into a compelling, buildable ritual. They are seeking:

• Creative Technologists (WebXR, Unity, wearables prototyping).

• Sound Designers/Composers skilled in adaptive and spatial audio.

• Accessibility Designers (blind/low-vision, inclusive interaction).

• Architects/Spatial Storytellers to map historical eras into musical rules.

• AI/Systems Thinkers for generative logic and geo-mapping.

• Performance/Scenography talent to stage a live composition.

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What if we could hear what we see? Imagine a tool that translates the world around you into a new sense. Sonic Lens looks toward the year 2036, where our physical bodies and digital tools work together as one. By turning your surroundings into sound, this project transforms every building and every step into a living piece of music.

Imagine a visitor with low vision standing in the Vatican with their eyes closed. They don’t just hear a description; they “hear” the architecture itself. The high vaults become rising chords, the repeating columns become a steady drumbeat, and the gold walls become a bright shimmer. Similarly, a runner moving through a forest hears their pace and the landscape turn into a calm, steady rhythm. If they push too hard, the music automatically softens to help them breathe and find their flow.

This technology also turns history into a living layer. Walking through a poppy field or an old battlefield allows the land to “play back” its memory through sound and narrative fragments, making the past feel present without a flashy spectacle. By matching the patterns of a space to your own movement, Sonic Lens offers a “right-dopamine” deep dive—shifting focus away from noisy notifications and back to the beauty of the moment. It opens unlimited possibilities to reconnect people with spaces, turning the entire world into a shared, inclusive symphony.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a polyphonic being, evolving to sense the world through overlapping layers of history, architecture, and rhythm, using digital tools to expand human perception into a collective auditory awareness.

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Jon Somerscales is joining individually and seeking a specialized squad of “The Alchemists” and “The Systems Imagineers” to realize a metabolic vision. He is looking for:

• Technical creatives, cyberneticists, and ML engineers.

• Biological scientists, biotechnologists, and ecologists.

• Acousticians and experiential designers.

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Jon’s project hack idea revolves around 'holobiont/metabolic' imaginaries—inspired by the coral holobiont and its implications for human societal structures. He views the current era as unstable, where technologies often act upon us within out-of-control systems. His vision seeks new ways of relating to each other and the planet that are not brokered by incumbent systems, instead leveraging science that is finally catching up with indigenous intuition regarding nature's interactions. He is particularly inspired by recent breakthroughs in quantum biology, such as the engineering of quantum-enabled proteins in bacteria, which shift from observing quantum effects in nature to deliberately designing them for real-world use.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a holobiont entity. For Somerscales, this represents a shift away from human-centric worldviews toward a shared metabolic existence where technology, biology, and indigenous intuition converge to foster environmental stewardship.

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Briam Rolon is looking for:

• Partners for artistic production and co-creation.

• Mentoring in connecting science and technology.

• Multimedia designers for fulldome environments.

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Briam is interested in co-creating immersive experiences that connect science, technology, art, and culture. His vision focuses on the fulldome format, which offers a unique perspective on perception and spatial immersion, allowing participants to feel the “vibration” of the technological and natural worlds.

The New Human is...

The New Human is an immersive explorer. For Rolon, this means the human experience is expanded through all-encompassing digital environments that reframe our relationship with space and culture.

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Deniz Kurt is looking for creative hackers to work on:

• Workflows involving TouchDesigner and machine learning.

• 3D and AI tools

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Deniz explores how the intersection of art and technology connects with humanity and nature. Her vision involves creating small-scale prototypes that evolve into big-scale immersive projects, focusing on computational creativity and algorithmic aesthetics. She seeks to create audiovisual experiences that function as speculative projects for future human-nature interactions.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a speculative technologist. For Kurt, this means using technology to build prototypes of a future where algorithmic beauty and natural systems are indistinguishable.

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Moe Angelo is looking for partners to help evolve:

• Interactive AI Agent projects.

• EEG and bio-sensor integration.

• Interactive projection mapping and lasers.

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Moe is obsessed with the intersection of art and tech, specifically how biological signals like EEG can drive interactive environments. His current vision involves an interactive AI agent project called “TaoBot,” which seeks to manifest technological intelligence through visual and spatial media.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a bio-digital conduit. For Angelo, this means using technology to bridge the gap between human neural activity and the physical world through algorithmic translation.

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Wen Yu is looking for collaborators who want to explore:

• Interdisciplinary, curiosity-driven curricula.

• How machines and humans expand aesthetics and empathy.

Storytelling merged with creative learning.

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Wen Yu is interested in how humans and machines co-create to expand the boundaries of empathy and aesthetics. Her vision focuses on nurturing imagination through interdisciplinary art curricula inspired by constructionist learning. Her recent research explores how AI can amplify creative agency, specifically looking at how intelligence—both natural and artificial—can shape new narrative experiences.

The New Human is...

The New Human is an imaginative co-creator. For Yu, this means utilizing AI not as a replacement for human thought, but as a partner in building curiosity-driven worlds that foster empathy.

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NeoMeta is looking for team members interested in:

• Interspecies Kinship and Communication.

• Bio-art and Computational systems.

• Eco Art and Environmental Advocacy.

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NeoMeta's work explores the interconnectedness of life and non-life, investigating the systems—natural, digital, and social—that shape shared futures. She treats living, discarded, and digital entities as co-agents, reimagining waste as material and decay as part of life's natural continuum. Her vision advocates for post-anthropocentric coexistence through the creation of collaborative ecosystems.

The New Human is...

The New Human is an interconnected node. For NeoMeta, this means existing within a shared system where the boundaries between biological and digital decay are blurred, fostering new forms of kinship across species.

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Erika Marthins is looking for collaborators who can bridge the gap between technical execution and experiential design. She is specifically seeking:

• Alchemists with skills in code, AI systems, hardware, or interactive media

• Storyworld Architects or performers to shape how prototypes are perceived and felt

• Research-driven thinkers interested in mapping systems and questioning assumptions

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Erika Marthins views “The New Human” not as a destination but as a condition defined by the tension between augmentation and vulnerability. She is fascinated by how technologies designed to optimize the human form often end up exposing our deep dependencies, biases, and inherent limits. Her vision explores the redistribution of intelligence, agency, and care between biological bodies and machine systems. Rather than aiming for a perfected future, she seeks to prototype tangible moments—experienced through food, interfaces, or specific environments—that allow participants to sense what is being gained, lost, or quietly transformed.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a vulnerable system. For Marthins, this means acknowledging that as we augment our capabilities, we also redistribute our agency into systems we no longer fully control. Her work seeks to make these shifts tangible through the senses, ensuring the human remains a central, albeit transformed, part of the equation.

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Chiara is looking for specialized support in:

• Curatorship and Critical Judgment.

• Technical implementation for interactive installations.
  

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Chiara’s vision focuses on a “new way of participation and interactivity for humanity”. She is interested in how the explorer mindset can lead to new forms of engagement that prioritize human sensitivity and critical judgment. Her work explores the transition from net art to virtual sculpture, as seen in her interest in the work of Auriea Harvey.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a critical participant. For Chiara, this archetype represents the transition from passive consumption of technology to active, critical interaction that prioritizes human experience and aesthetic judgment.

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Thomas is looking for a partner to provide:

• Visual Design support to enhance his technical prototypes.

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Thomas Miley’s work is a search for moments of beauty within the technological landscape. His vision is to use his skills as an alchemist to turn technical ideas into tangible prototypes that allow for these aesthetic experiences to emerge. He is connected to the Grey Area community in San Francisco, which has long been a hub for the intersection of art and tech.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a beauty-seeker. For Miley, this means using technology to uncover and manifest moments of aesthetic grace, ensuring that the future is not just efficient but also beautiful.

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Arden is looking for folks with strong conceptual and ethical alignment:

• Partners who share a similar understanding of the creative process.

• Collaborators interested in speculative methods and biotech.

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Arden Schager addresses the deep tensions of our current inflection point—where powerful tools are made by ethically dubious companies and connectivity often leads to loneliness. His vision is to work through these feelings using creative speculative processes. He is particularly interested in how biotech could be used to literally make new humans this century. By using speculative methods, he hopes to think outside or beyond the current moment where things feel “stuck and strange”. He is inspired by the “Emissaries” work of Ian Cheng, which uses AI to create autonomous, evolving worlds.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a speculative explorer. For Schager, this means using the creative process to navigate the ethical tensions of the modern age, moving toward a future that is intentionally designed rather than one we simply stumble into.

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Maria Rita is joining with an existing team and is looking to refine their collaboration:

• Open to discussing team roles as the project evolves.

• Looking for conceptual alignment on the tension between embodiment and tech.

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Maria Rita Nogueira focuses on the tension between embodiment and technology, viewing them not as an opposition but as a “co-presence”. Her vision for “The New Human” is one where we are redefined through our relationships with machines, but where movement, gesture, and sensation remain central. She asks how human presence, vulnerability, and intuition persist and even become more visible through interaction with intelligent systems. For her, technology is not a distancing force but a lens that invites reflection on our most human qualities.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a co-present being. For Nogueira, this archetype represents the persistence of human vulnerability and sensation within the digital framework, ensuring that we remain grounded in our own bodies even as we interact with intelligent systems.

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Gargi is looking for specialists to complement her design and storytelling background:

• Alchemists to help turn ideas into tangible prototypes.

• Systems Thinkers to map world-building consequences.

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Gargi Garg views “The New Human” as the bridge between raw human intuition and the power of AI. As the founder of Scenory, she works in the tension between “perfect” digital output and the “soul” of storytelling. Her vision is to use AI to expand the boundaries of imagination, allowing for the construction of immersive worlds that once seemed unreachable. The critical challenge she addresses is keeping unique aesthetic voices and “human scars” alive in an era of digital perfection.

The New Human is...

The New Human is an augmented creator. For Gargi, this means we are not replaced by AI but are instead expanded by it, using machine power to reach our imaginative limits while retaining the imperfect, soulful qualities that make us human.

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Anastasiia is looking for technical partners to bridge the implementation gap:

• Programming and Systems Development.

• Sensor integration and real-time processing.

• Collaborative “reef-thinking” across disciplines.

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Anastasiia Tsukanova’s vision is centered on "The Reef Model," which suggests that posthumanist ideas are not abstract theories but lived experiences. This occurs when sound, body, and technology merge to create an "expanded version of the self". Her work as a violinist informs her spatial and temporal thinking, which she applies to creating audiovisual systems that expand the listening experience. She seeks to move beyond isolated creation toward a collaborative energy where art, science, and technology are unified through "reef-thinking"—the idea that we thrive as part of a larger, interconnected ecosystem.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a reef-thinker. For Tsukanova, this means the new human is an interdisciplinary entity whose boundaries are expanded through collaboration and the merging of biological and digital soundscapes.

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Jordan is looking for a diverse hacking squad:

• Code Hackers and GLSL specialists.

• 3D Model Hackers and Kitbashers.

• Analog Video Synthesis artists.

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Jordan Gray’s vision for the "ModBod" project focuses on captured human forms and the infinite possibilities that arise from remixing them. ModBod is a Creative Commons remixable archive of full-body 3D scans, designed to explore the edges of reality and perception. His work utilizes analog video synthesis on LXZ modular systems and 3D rendering techniques like raymarching to create graphics that bend and twist, creating a dissonance between the material and its physicality. The vision is to treat cultural information and individual narrative as something that can be circulated and preserved beyond geographical contexts.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a remixable archive. For Gray, this means the body and its digital representation are no longer private or static but are instead part of a larger, collective pool of data that can be kitbashed and re-envisioned by anyone.

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Alex is joining as an individual but is prepared to integrate his installation into a team:

• Requires an electric outlet for the standalone “Portal” installation.

• Open to collaborating on narratives of fluid identity.

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Alex Thevenot explores "The New Human" as a fluid, collective identity. His project, "The Metamorphosis," uses a mirror portal to reflect, fragment, and merge the physical attributes of participants, forming an evolving hybrid body. This interactive installation addresses our perceived notion of self in an effort to embrace togetherness through physical, sociological, and spiritual transformations. By facing the interactive rotating sculpture, viewers align their physical symmetry to create an infinite amount of changing personas, bringing insight into the nature of shared existence.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a collective hybrid. For Alex, this means our identity is not fixed within our own skin but is instead a metamorphic process that occurs when we merge with others through the mediation of art and light.

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Alessandra is looking for expert support to deepen the narrative of “Human/ID”:

• Alchemists skilled in Machine Learning and real-time processing.

• Storyworld Architects to draft complex narrative outputs.

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Alessandra Leone focuses on the traces, data, and patterns that shape "The New Human". Her vision, developed through the StratoFyzika collective, treats identity like software that is learned and repeated through the body. She speculates on the swapping and exchange of identities, seeking to expose the blurry line between human agency and technological automation. Her work explores the uncanny spaces where humans are translated into code, asking what new perspectives these digital "in-between zones" open regarding the self, the body, and our relationship with others.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a system of software-like behaviors. For Leone, this means the self is increasingly rendered through digital code, leading to a future where we must navigate the profound shifts in perspective that occur when our physical bodies are translated into data patterns.

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Hen/i is part of the StratoFyzika collective and is looking for:

• Technical support for ML and real-time video processing.

• Performance and research opportunities to expand “Human/ID”.

• Collaborators interested in the intersection of dance and deepfakes.

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Hen/i’s project, "Human/ID," approaches identity as code—something structured, learned, and executed like a machine running a program. Her vision draws a parallel between human behavior and computational systems, viewing the body as a shell and identity as a set of learnable programs—voice, gesture, personality—that can be studied, replicated, and potentially exchanged. She asks whether one can render a live Deepfake where elements of identity can be swapped, and what remains of the human essence when these elements are removed. Her work explores the "uncanny valley" and the gain or loss of self in digital spaces.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a renderable identity. For Hen/i, this archetype represents the body as a platform for swappable software, where the animation of the self is no longer fixed but can be temporarily replaced by another, exposing the blurry line between agency and automation.

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Vaibhav is looking for a multi-talented team to help realize a symbiotic installation:

• Technical implementers for interactive systems.

• Storytellers and Systems Thinkers.

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Vaibhav Bhandari is driven by the symbiosis of humans, art, and AI, which he views as a way to bring technology closer to our inner lives. His vision centers on collaboration rather than solo projects, with a focus on interactive and experiential art. He seeks to create experiences that serve as a mirror to our emotions, exploring themes of inner kindness and personal milestones. His previous projects, such as the "Cyber Explorers Escape Room" and the "Breathe Responsibly Installation," demonstrate a commitment to immersive storytelling that utilizes lighting, sound, and physical structures to engage the audience.

The New Human is...

The New Human is a symbiotic creator. For Bhandari, this means using AI and interactive technology not as a cold tool but as a medium that reflects the soul and facilitates deeper human connections and expressions of kindness.

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