AVANTGUARDIANS expands the mythos of AvantGarden into an ecology of remembrance and transformation. These digital entities are assembled from the anatomical memory of extinct species: Opabinia regalis, Thylacine, Dunkleosteus terrelli, Hallucigenia sparsa, and others.
Every year, between 10,000 and 100,000 species vanish from planet Earth. Each extinction is not only biological, it is an erasure of form, perception, and knowledge.
AVANTGUARDIANS imagines synthetic life as an act of empathy, a practice of re-sensing what has been lost. By sculpting digital anatomies from vanished species, the work proposes a poetic countermeasure, a reconstruction of diversity through imagination.
Each entity acts as a memorial guardian, a fragment of lost biodiversity reborn through simulation. Within immersive environments, AVANTGUARDIANS become poetic sensors, occupying the threshold between biology and code.
Rendered through hyperreal 3D synthesis, these forms float in spectral voids, serene, alien, and virtually alive. Through remembrance and empathy, the work suggests that imagination is ecological infrastructure. To recompose extinct anatomies is to remember that every form carries an idea of resilience. As speculative caretakers of planetary memory, AVANTGUARDIANS morphologies propose hope through transformation.

Anatomical Sources
Opabinia regalis · Anomalocaris canadensis · Dunkleosteus terrelli · Thylacine · Pterosaur · Helicoprion · Aepyornis maximus · Megalograptus · Hallucigenia sparsa · Quagga · Ichthyosaur · Glyptodon · Moa · Trilobite · Coelodonta antiquitatis