In her 2009 book Vibrant Matter, political theorist Jane Bennett challenged the modern notion of nonhuman substances as “passive stuff”—things that, by our standards, are “raw, brute, or inert.” This habit of compartmentalizing the realms of life and nonlife, she wrote, “feeds human hubris and our earth-destroying fantasies of conquest and consumption.” South Korean artist-filmmaker Eunjo Lee links these ontologies to our current screen-based era, where AI has simultaneously deepened and destabilized the divide between the organic and inorganic. Using computer graphics software such as Unreal Engine and Blender, she constructs darkly surreal 3D-animated worlds in which people, nature, and machines exist with equal subjectivity.
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