This project uses bioplastic prosthetics to extend the organismic edge as a territory of reactivity. This exploration of bioplastics was a first foray into this biosynthetic formation process, which engages both the intensive properties of materials – in this case agar, glycerin, urine, and chia – and extensive properties of the body to create new superorganismic relationships.

Rather than ending at its fingers, the superorganism’s boundaries thicken: creating tendrils from a stomach to the origin of a coffee bean; producing microbiotic plumes; storing memories in the Cloud. This project posits the body as a site of contestation and fertility, using additive biology to lean toward blurry symbiosis between a subject, its body, its food, and its waste. This prosthetic is a transformation from the contents of my refrigerator to the synthesis of new biological functionality that captures carbon, is completely degradable, and nourishes the skin and the soil.

ACSA 107th Annual Meeting: Black Box conference presentation.