MIND GARDEN
Audio-visual installation
SIGNAL GARDEN, Audio-Visual Artwork, 4K videos, 16x9 (7:30 minutes), 9x16 (1:51 minutes), 2026.
CALIBRATION CHAMBER, Audio-Visual Artwork, 4K videos, 16x9 (2:41 minutes); 9x16 (0:48 minutes), 2026.
THE FACE FIELD, Audio-Visual Artwork, 4K video, 9x16 (4:03 minutes), 2026.
SIGNALS, Audio-Visual Artwork, 4K videos, 16x9 (1:21 minutes); 9x16 (0:45 minutes), 2026.
3D sculpting and rendering, AI generative image processing, sound compositions: Tanja Vujinovic
Production: Tanja Vujinovic / Ultramono
Consulting: Mika Pi (software engineering), Ultramono community
MIND GARDEN
Mind Garden unfolds as a speculative ecosystem where consciousness, technology, and biological imagination intertwine.
The work presents a luminous landscape populated by unusual plant forms, neural structures, and otherworldly organisms that appear both technological and alive. Spherical elements drift through the environment like fruit or seeds, functioning as emotional signals circulating through a shared cognitive landscape.
Across the installation, hybrid faces continuously emerge and transform. Masks shift, exchange features, and absorb traces of multiple species. Identity appears fluid and composite, an evolving structure shaped by encounters between bodies, technologies, and environments. These transformations foreground diversity as a generative force. Difference becomes an engine of complexity.
Within the installation a solitary figure stands inside a brightly lit wellness chamber, dressed in an industrial white suit and wearing an alien mask. Positioned between laboratory and sanctuary, the character appears as both observer and participant in a system where technological artifacts and living forms begin to merge.
Fragments of digital culture, emoji-like shapes, neon signals, and synthetic textures, interweave with botanical growth and neuron-inspired networks. The environment behaves like a garden of minds, where signals, memories, and emotional states circulate as living matter.
Mind Garden proposes a shift from technological anxiety toward a more compassionate relationship with the strange systems we create. It imagines a future where difference, curiosity, and resilience become essential ecological conditions of consciousness.
Within this landscape, strangeness is a form of wellbeing.