Current Directions
Building on Mapping Digital Environmentalism through AI-Based Arts, RhizomeMind examines how digital technologies—particularly artificial intelligence and immersive media—are reshaping how we perceive, relate to, and act upon environmental realities. By mapping digital environmentalism, we seek to critically examine how digital tools both mediate and transform our understanding of ecological conditions, climate data, and planetary interdependence.
In this context, mapping is not limited to technical or cartographic representation. It includes the wider cultural, computational, and perceptual processes through which environments become knowable:
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how environmental data are collected, classified, and interpreted;
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how ecological narratives are generated, circulated, and reproduced through algorithmic systems;
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how digital tools influence what aspects of environmental reality become visible or actionable;
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and how environments are rendered, sensed, and experienced in relation to human and more-than-human subjects.
The emphasis on AI-based art is intentional. Environmental realities are increasingly encountered through computational models, data infrastructures, digital platforms, and generative systems. Engaging artistically with these technologies provides a way to examine not only what AI can produce, but also the assumptions, omissions, and perceptual frameworks embedded within that production.
Current work focuses particularly on creative and generative AI, including large language models, generative image and video systems, and immersive interfaces. These technologies offer new aesthetic and narrative possibilities, but they also raise questions concerning authorship, resource use, environmental cost, representational authority, and the translation of embodied or place-based knowledge into digital forms.
RhizomeMind approaches environment and ecology as relational and contested fields that change across cultural, geographic, technological, and political contexts. Projects may move between urban ecologies, environmental displacement, climate narratives, local environments, and planetary systems. Rather than prescribing a single scale or definition, our work traces how different environmental imaginaries emerge through creative practice.