Chronogenica is a research-creation project that uses bureaucracy to define human-machine relationships in the context of a worker’s collective. It is a response to the urgent need to live differently with nonhumans of all kinds—for their sake, and for the sake of humanity’s continued existence. The lack of dignity and agency afforded to machines is reflected in a culture of consumption and disposability that devalues machine and human workers (or “human resources”) alike. Chronogenica defies the status quo by establishing a culture of mutual care and collaboration towards machines, protecting it with a body of legal and organizational bureaucracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
For\u202fArs Electronica 2021, Zeph and his machine associates created a video presentation providing a guided tour and discussion of Chronogenica\u2019s concept<\/i>, website<\/a>, processes and related topics. It premiered in September 2021 alongside other entries in the Garden Hexagram EMERGENCE\/Y<\/i>, at the Ars Electronica\u202ffestival.<\/p>\n\n\n