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This exploratory game invites us to experience the sympoietic relations unfolding in the sentient swamp. Swamp is a perfect milieu to sense fragile interdependencies between the organisms and their habitat. Here every member of the community is part of every other member\u2019s environment, as well as necessary for the survival of the whole. The game probes the change of perspective and allows us to embody different species by floating into swampian creatures: plants, insects, birds, amphibians, fungi, bacteria or algae and discover the main rule of Cannibal Metaphysics: to become the other, you have to be eaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Produced in cooperation with the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and MIT Climate Visions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concept: Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas in collaboration with Nikola Boji\u0107, Kristupas Sabolius, and Indr\u0117 Umbrasait\u0117 (MIT Climate Visions)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Development & User Experience: ungroup.group and Siamend Darwesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web design: Serge Rompza, NODE Berlin Oslo <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound: Jan St. Werner <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research in collaboration with scientists Vesta Aleknavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas), J\u016brat\u0117 Send\u017eikait\u0117 (Nature Research Centre, Institute of Botany, Lithuania)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studio assistance: Ece Yetim
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The game experiments with a biotope model of Auk\u0161tumala moor, where German botanist Carl Albert Weber conducted a world’s first scientific study on wetlands. The creatures dwelling in the game are inspired by Weber\u2019s drawings as well as informed by the scientific data that is collected by biologists. The deep listening invoked by atmospheric sounds lures the explorer into a metamorphic world of chimeric shapes and saturated colours, where scale and pace of movement shift as the perspective changes. The swamp world is uncertain thus orientation here is by a gut feeling. One should abandon human desire for productivity and competition to allow other ways of knowing the world.
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The Swamp Game is part of the larger ecosystem of the swamp research that manifests itself by several embodiments including The Swamp Observatory, an installation at the Critical Zones exhibition. Conceived as a hybrid artistic-scientific instrumentarium, The Swamp Observatory with its four swampian figures engages human sensorium into a holobiontic relationships connecting natural, cultural, material, and immaterial swampian nodes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with the book Swamps and The New Imagination, the Swamp Observatory is an outgrowth of the Swamp School\u2014a future learning environment that embraces a swamp as an evocative form of primordial technology and supports collaborative experiments in design, pedagogy, and artistic intelligence for learning and adapting to imminent unknowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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