The art collective Cesar & Lois (artists Lucy HG Solomon and Cesar Baio) discuss their artworks that explore networked growth as a logical system and form of thinking, incorporating living organisms such as Physarum polycephalum (slime mold) and fruiting mushrooms. Their artworks imagine a technological network built on a microbiological framework. The hybrid computational model they envision is linked to the ecosystemic logic of living systemsthe living network’s decisions are ecologically responsive. The artists seek to obtain knowledge across species and disciplines as they reconsider the nature of thought.

For our Lovely Weather Residency project in County Donegal, the League of Imaginary Scientists teamed up with NASA's Athena Science Team and County Donegal to pair a location on Mars with an island in Ireland. We then probed the connections between these newly associated points on Mars and Earth in an art project meshing climate study, adventure and storytelling.