Perennial Symbiosis

“Perennial Symbiosis” is a multimedia eco-art installation that inspires a re-envisioned world of coexistence through the beauty of the knowledge that all species on earth, organism, and machine alike, are interconnected. The artwork also touches on ecocritical poetry that urges the audience to reflect on their behaviour and relationship with nature. Perennial is defined as lasting or existing for an infinite amount of time, and Symbiosis means living together in the close union of two (or more) dissimilar organisms.

This project combines ecological thinking with new media methods with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) generation in an art installation. AI toolsets were used to train a dataset of over 200 images of terrestrial creatures, objects, and landscapes, combining the critical characteristics of each to form a new ‘associated’ organism. In a way, the Perennial Symbiosis is shaped and inspired by the science and ecology of the planet.

Leanna Chan is a final-year student majoring in Media Arts at Multimedia University’s Faculty of Creative Multimedia in Cyberjaya. She draws inspiration from personal experiences and constantly experiments with various mediums to give her audience a new perspective on the world around them.