In response to the growing threats of species extinction and global warming, scientists and farmers are increasingly turning to technologies like genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and machine learning. Speculative Evolution envisions a future ecosystem, 30 years from now, where artificial intelligence and biotechnologies collaborate to create and optimize species capable of surviving in an increasingly hostile environment. Through the lens of an AI simulator, the audience is invited to generate new variations of animals, fungi, plants, and robots. Participants can fly alongside these engineered and mutated species and observe the evolving ecosystem.

Speculative Evolution responds to and challenges the notion of technology-assisted problem-solving by constructing narratives of an incomputable system under extreme control – What do we choose to optimize, and what complexities are we overlooking in the process? The project critiques our tendency to reduce complex ecosystems to fixable systems, questioning the impact of such simplifications on our understanding of nature.