Hybirds

Hybirds is a speculative exploration of the digital archive as a space for memory and materiality in a post-Anthropocene world. Created by a fictional collective, it presents five digital object groups accessed via web-based augmented reality, accompanied by algorithmically generated memory videos. These assemblages—comprising found objects from 2000 to 2023, such as organic materials, electronic components, and industrial fragments—challenge the boundaries between the physical and the virtual. Photographed, retouched, and digitally archived, these objects exist as screen-based experiences, collapsing temporal and spatial constraints. Hybirds questions how we preserve memory in an era of technological entanglement. As infinite scrolling reshapes perception, the project interrogates our relationship with material culture, prompting reflection on the interplay between the organic, the industrial, and the digital. What remains of humanity in a world where reality is increasingly mediated by Screens?

Maria Paneta
Maria Paneta is an artist and architect who explores digital media, nature, and societal change through interactive installations and prosthetic wearables. She investigates a world beyond the unsustainable impacts of human activity, proposing new systems of coexistence and stewardship. Maria has collaborated with institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Diriyah Biennale, and the Bartlett School of Architecture and exhibited globally, including at MoCA Shanghai and ONX Onassis. Yiouli Tsatsopoulou is a visual artist working across photography, video, and sound. Her practice explores self-portraiture and the relationship between identity and space through mixed media approaches. Specialises in jewellery photography, collaborating with innovative designers. As a member of Templeyard Studios (Athens, Berlin), she founded Xamenos Xronos, an audio-visual project merging sound and image. Together, they explore speculative futures and immersive experiences at the intersection of art and technology.

Yiouli Tsatsopoulou
Yiouli Tsatsopoulou is a visual artist working across photography, video, and sound. Her practice explores self-portraiture and the relationship between identity and space through mixed media approaches. Specialises in jewellery photography, collaborating with innovative designers. As a member of Templeyard Studios (Athens, Berlin), she founded Xamenos Xronos, an audio-visual project merging sound and image.

Together, they explore speculative futures and immersive experiences at the intersection of art and technology.