Web of Life

Elysia chlorotica*
Web of Life (WoL) is the Art Now-curated collective of artists, scientists, thinkers, and practitioners exploring human and more-than-human relations, engaging with plants, animals, ecosystems, and the invisible systems that sustain life.
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​WoL is a living network, supporting experimentation, interdisciplinary collaborations, and shared opportunities. It also functions as a platform for art and science research, knowledge exchange, and mutual learning focused on the relational and deep ecology.
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By nurturing awareness and sensitivity to the planet’s living diversity, WoL experiments with weaving more-than-human creative practices into the fabric of public and cultural life. Participating in the ongoing transformation of social paradigms, WoL is dedicated to cultivating interspecies care and life-centric cultural development. It envisions ways of living that consume less, remain mindful of waste and sufficiency, and respectfully close the energy loop within the dynamic balance of self-perpetuating life.
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The range of art forms repairing and reimaging human entanglements within more-than-human ecologies is open-ended, including (but not limited to):
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- interspecies communication and translation,
- sound-based, data-driven, experimental bio-art practices,
- nonhuman perspectives and sensory worlds,
- temporalities of ecosystems (slow time, deep time, cyclical time)
- sensing and translating environmental data (climate, pollution, water flows),
- urban biodiversity and more-than-human cities,
- restoration practices and rewilding through art,
- soil intelligence, mycelial communication, and plant sensing,
- mapping invisible ecosystems (microbial, atmospheric, hydrological),
- cycles of decay, regeneration, and material transformation,
- planetary sensing and cosmic ecologies.
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* Elysia chlorotica, a species of green sea slug from the eastern coast of North America, begins life as an animal but over time incorporates chloroplasts from algae into its own cells.
This process enables the slug to perform photosynthesis and generate energy from sunlight. On the day of its final meal, the slug starts living by sunlight alone, evolved into a creature that blurs the boundary between animal and plant.
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The "solar-powered sea slug”relfects the WoL metaphor for transformation, the interconnectedness of all living beings, and the dissolution of traditional boundaries, revealing within this very ambiguity the potential for renewal and new beginnings.
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The photo is used for educational and socio-transformative purposes: Encyclopædia Britannica. A photosynthetic animal. Eastern emerald elysia (Elysia chlorotica). Mary Tyler-Mary Rumpho/University of Maine. https://www.britannica.com/animal/Elysia-chlorotica#/media/1/1659642/153228.
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