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Gardening with Ephemeral Technology

Electronic waste (e-waste), microgreens, augmented reality installations
(2022 – 2024)

A more-than-human collaboration between the artist-researcher, electronic waste (e-waste), and vegetation. The project explores the binary between living and non-living things, multispecies entanglements, and defying planned obsolescence. It’s grounded in the work of queer, feminist, and environmental scholars such as: Donna Haraway, Mel Y. Chen, Anna Tsing, and McKenzie Wark.

Exhibited at Arborescent during Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) – Overcoming Divides: Electronic Literature and Social Change in Coimbra, Portugal (2023) and Interface at WIP in Montreal, QC (2023).



Gardening with Ephemeral Technology 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3 (2022-2023). Electronic waste, microgreens, soil. Photos: Oriana Confente

Interface at WIP, Montreal QC, 2023. Photo: Oriana Confente

Left: Arborescent at ELO 2023 in Coimbra, Portugal. Photo: Nuno Pessoa
Right: Gardening with Ephemeral Technology 1.0 at ELO 2023. Augmented reality (AR) installation (2022). Photo: Oriana Confente