QUANTUM NATURE

2024–2025, in collaboration with data scientist Tobias Wursthorn

DIGITAL BOTANY & SPECULATIVE ECOLOGY.

QUANTUM NATURE begins with the historical herbarium of Franz Joseph Lagger (1799–1870), comprising around 18,000 preserved plant specimens. Generative image models transform these botanical records into speculative forms between scientific document, memory and imagined vegetation.

The synthetic flora encounters images of damaged forests, industrial extraction and contaminated landscapes, creating scenes between ecological loss and possible regeneration. A language-based AI reflects on scientific knowledge and environmental change, bringing archive, present reality and imagined futures into a speculative ecology.

The project exists both as an immersive audiovisual installation and as a cinematic adaptation.

IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION

5-channel video, sound
Generative image and language models
Dimensions variable
34:33 min., loop

The installation surrounds the audience with a continuously transforming botanical landscape. Historical plant specimens dissolve into synthetic growth, mutations and imagined ecologies across multiple projection surfaces, turning the museum space into an immersive field between scientific archive and artificial imagination.

Exhibitions
Naturhistorisches Museum Fribourg, Switzerland, 2025
ISEA2026 — 31st International Symposium on Electronic / Emerging Art, Dubai / UAE, 2026

FILM ADAPTATION

32 min., 2025

The film adaptation translates the spatial world of QUANTUM NATURE into a concentrated cinematic form. Botanical transformations, environmental imagery and the synthetic voice are recomposed into an audiovisual journey through archival memory, ecological disruption and speculative futures.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Moss Farm Film & Arts Festival 2025
California, USA

Selected screenings
Biophilia Festival Internacional de Cine, Mexico, 2025
VisiOn Festival, Italy, 2025
New York Indie Shorts Awards, USA, 2026