Jeremy Starn - Unnatural Nature

Telephone Sound: Live AI generated voice responding to existential questions of self, photography, and 'Nature'. Each phone activation (pick-up) produced further AI exploration of the questions.

Background Audio: Distorted Asexual Katydids

Conventional nature photography has often been an exercise in domestication. A desire to capture the wild and tame the weird. Press the thorny, three-dimensional world into a polite rectangle, and the image begins masquerading as the ground beneath. But what happens when photographs move beyond capture and begin making worlds of their own design? Drawing on queer ecology and post-photographic practices the photographs in this reactive installation become restless, codependent bodies. How do photographs construct the world without becoming equivalent? What new worlds take root when pictures misbehave?