Artist, researcher and educator exploring the strange interfaces between ecology and technology
Today I am meeting with fellow members of the Earthly Practices Research group (MMU) as part of a “Field Day” organised by Rowanna Lacey Ewings. Our group, broadly speaking, is interested in ‘design thinking and practices rooted in interconnection and reciprocity with natural systems’ (1) so we thought it appropriate to put theory into practice....
Instagram: @tonazoid Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antony-hall/ Substack: https://substack.com/@antonyhallart Cryptogamic Oracle 2026: An urban eco-technological oracle for noticing moss, infrastructure and more-than-human life:Cryptogamic Oracle Moss WorldsMossWorlds is an interdisciplinary project based at the University of Manchester, which investigates the historical, contemporary and…
Very pleased to finally launch Cryptogamic Oracle, a new project emerging from my exploration of ponds, non-human computing systems, and urban moss ecologies. Building on my moss walk workshops, the project expands into more eco-technological territory through the use of an app for reflection, image-making, and slow observation. The app invites participants to notice overlooked...
A reflection on AI and oracular practices in relation to the Cryptogamic Oaracle Project. The Cryptogamic Oracle draws on recent work that frames AI and algorithmic systems as oracle-like interfaces: tools that produce signs, prompts and patterns, rather than fixed truths. St. Lawrence describes technomancy as a form of algorithmic divination, where platforms become part...
These cardes are embeded in a data base within the cryptogamic oracle app cureerntly there are 72. They are a work in progress. New cards are addedd removed as the project develops .In the app each user generated reading binds a new image to the cards and the full deck of cards with images can...
This p5.js sketch turns live earthquake data into an audio-visual replay. It pulls recent earthquake events from the USGS feed, filters them to a chosen geographic region, and compresses that activity into a short looping timeline on screen. As each quake appears in the replay, it is drawn as a pulsing visual marker and also...
This nodal synth project is based on a false memory. I was discussing false memories with friends last night and reflecting on some of my own. I woke up the next day still thinking about this. I often think about something that my friend Ben had shown me years ago, I have this strong memory...
App development using Base44 output image composites from version 1 See Crptogamic oracle 2026
I have found it helpful to think through my pond computer research using AI assited codeing. In this patch, I created a simulated pond computer. An 8×8 hypothetical sensor grid is imposed over a 2D simulation of daphnia-like particles swimming around. The daphnia are attracted to light. The 8×8 grid represents LDRs and LEDs (though...
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave offers a metaphor for the limits of human perception. Plato describes a group of prisoners in a cave who know the outside world only through shadows projected on a wall in front of them. Similarly, LLMs don t learn about the world from direct experience, but from “shadows” in its training data: billions...