Speculative speciation: artificial anagensis and creative cladogenesis
Over 160 bird species have gone extinct due to human pressures and activities. More than 1500 species are at risk of extinction. Not only are those extinctions profound losses in and of themselves, but they also represent devastating losses of what could have been. Would these species have diversified into many more different and wonderful forms increasing biodiversity?
Jacklyn Brickman and I explore this question in our collaborative art-science research. We tell stories of extinctions, merging data on lost species and artistic speculation about what we've lost.
Still from Speculative speciation, passenger pigeon. View video here.
Lecture performances
2024
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Speculative speciation: artificial anagenesis and creative cladogenesis performance, with Jacklyn Brickman. West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, curated by Jason Zeh, Morgantown, WV
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Speculative speciation: passenger pigeon, with Jacklyn Brickman. TOPIA Festival, Jackson, MI
Video screenings
2026
Speculative speciation, honeycreeper, with Jacklyn Brickman.
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Mid-America College Art Association Members Juried Exhibition curated by Sage Dawson, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
2025
Speculative speciation: passenger pigeon, with Jacklyn Brickman.
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Hudson Valley Film Festival, Warwick, NY
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Mid-America College Art Association Hybrid Juried Exhibition curated by Nick Larsen, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
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Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chelsea Theatre, Chapel Hill, NC
Speculative speciation, honeycreeper, with Jacklyn Brickman.
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Birds on Record, Labocine March 2025 issue.
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Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival, Venice, Italy.
2024
Speculative speciation, honeycreeper, with Jacklyn Brickman.
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Open Air Media Festival, curated by Zen Cohen and Dana Potter, Iowa City, IA
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Animation Micro Dose, curated by Lynn Kim, Stop Gap Projects, Columbia, MS
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GUI/GOOEY, curated by Laura Splan, Plexus Projects, Brooklyn, NY