The first volume in the Future Wunderkammer series, Between Organism and Algorithm, brings together a collection of essays exploring the shifting boundaries of life as it has historically been understood. With both apprehension and audacity, humanity tinkers with—and congeals— organisms and algorithms: holobionts, chimeras, mineral-cast intelligence. The essays in this volume embrace ontological ambiguity as a site of inquiry, asking: How has the codification of life shaped life itself? Is a mind bound to biology, or can it emerge independent of its substrate? And ultimately, in an era increasingly defined by technomorphism, what will life become?
Contributions by Claire Isabel Webb, Sara Imari Walker, Benjamin Bratton, Sounds Fun, Sam Kriegman, K Allado-McDowell, Nancy Baker Cahill, Sougwen Chung, Suparna Choudhury, Nils Gilman, Dawn Nakagawa
Artwork by Thibault Tourmente, Santtu Mustonen, George Wylesol, Sounds Fun, Two-Eyed People, Jimmy Linear, Cynthia Alfonso, Public/Official, Lauren Coleman
