Deep Minds (2026)

A series of computational video works that explores how we recognize life, agency, individuality, and intelligence, drawing inspiration from siphonophores and nautiluses, whose bodies and modes of organization blur boundaries between individual and collective, organism and environment.

Rather than trying to make them legible in human terms, we ask what kinds of minds might exist beyond human assumptions about intention, communication, and consciousness.

This is also an expression of wonder, respect, and humility before the ocean as a living system which exceeds our categories, with forms of life and intelligence far stranger, more intricate, and more inventive than we can imagine.

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Commissioned by OceanX and Pioneer Works.