Engines of Repair

'On Spaceship Earth

We turn to science for self-repair.

Resilience evolves as we travel around the Sun.

Engines photosynthesize, capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide.

They grow soft bodies, regenerating life above its surface.'

Engines of Repair proposes an intensified transposition and reconciliation between the digital and the physical through soft embodied materiality. The piece unfolds the possibility of a biologically digital skin capable of sensing its environment, a hybrid future materiality made of bits and molecules, guided by digital processes, yet performing according to biological paradigms, under the Sun.

Here digital animation becomes a critical and inquisitive medium meant to anticipate the possible interaction between soft(ware) corporeality and the landscape, suggesting alternative materialities which could be deployed on both Earth and Mars.

This kind of film is also the world's first to incorporate the first sounds ever recorded on planet Mars. 

Engines of Repair uses filmic time as a freeing dimension, drawing and following the evolution of a sublime materiality and it aims to trigger visceral lived experiences of a reborn, self-repairing and thus immortal biologically digital materiality.