Project Information

Beneath the apparent immateriality of digital technologies lies an infrastructure assembled from rare minerals, fossil fuels, and water. Computational bodies emerge from the Earth, reorganising extracted matter into data and synthetic memory. Between these intertwined landscapes, My Garden Has No Soil traces the present as it slowly becomes the fossil record of the future.

It follows the ghosts of extinct plants as they migrate through invisible networks from stone into computational space, where fossil traces are reconfigured through algorithmic recombination and reborn as specimens native to the digital world. Computation becomes a new kind of ground where preservation and erosion occur simultaneously, and extinct botanical traces emerge through continual transformation.

Inside a custom-trained GAN, fossil plant records mingle with speculative botanical drawings. Introduced into the archival training material, these interventions contaminate systems of classification and interrupt the model’s tendency toward homogenisation. Machine learning becomes another site of fossilisation, where memory and extinction continue to circulate beyond their original ecological conditions, leaving behind new species of digital fossils.