New processes of mutation and mutualism by flowers and through artificial intelligence.
Using a science fiction narrative, this project features a group of nine middle school students from the Marie-Curie college in Tourcoing who seek to mutate, to transform into flowers. This group evolves in collaboration with an artificial imagination. They meet scientists in plant biology and observe Brendel's models, reproductions of anatomical flowers made in the 19th century from papier-mâché and various materials.
Collectively, the nine college students initiate a process of creating identities, of human-flower crossings, taking the form of technological creatures. Through filmic images, floral masks, algorithm networks and 3D modeling, the bodies of young adolescents are metamorphosed into hybrid, “botanico-humanoid” entities.