Paper: overGround:underStory — more-than-human storytelling with silicon and carbon kin

Presented at ISEA 2024 in Brisbane. This paper investigates how creative practice can facilitate multispecies storytelling by positioning the practitioner as a medium or demiurge—an intermediary in a vast, unknowable network. In doing so, it invites practitioners to reflect on the Urban Field Naturalist's "Few Simple Steps": slow down, observe, record, ask questions, and share. Abstract This paper focuses on “overGround:underStory”, an ongoing series of experiments exploring the role of creative and speculative design and media art practice in understanding the uses and implications of established and emerging technologies within broader, more-than-human ecologies. It investigates more-than-human storytelling by positioning the creative …