The Way of Flowers
The Way of Flowers offers a fundamental reinterpretation of ecological art by creating a living connection between generative hybrid plant-beings and real-world ecosystem regeneration projects.
These living digital botanicals fund actual biodiversity protection projects spanning six global bioregions from California vineyards to Colombian cloud forests and Brazilian wetlands to Caribbean coastal restoration. The biodiversity initiatives are verified through partnerships with organizations such as Regen Network and project selection is curated by ArtEcology, a global regenerative design studio.
This innovative approach reveals how protocol art becomes both a catalyst for environmental regeneration, creating a meaningful bridge between world building and real-world impact through communal engagement, ultimately embodying the principle that the model is the message.
Collective Participation
The customized Dapp enables the community to actively engage and participate by donating to selected biodiversity projects.
Scan the DApp
https://way-of-flowers.garden/
With the DApp you can
- select a dynamic Seed and a biodiversity project
- donate/ contribute to conservation effort and
- receive your static NFT as digital memory
Price for donation is 0.0110 ETH / ca 50 Euro
CROSSLUCID
Blooming Screen_1, 2025
Custom LED Screen, with blockchain integration
60 x 60 cm
16.000,00 EUR
(incl. VAT)
ABOUT CROSSLUCID
Established in 2018 in Shanghai, China.
Lives in Berlin, Germany. Works transnationally.
Awards/ Grants / Residencies
2024/2023
Artist-in-Residence, Fey Arts, Chateau du Feÿ, FR
GLITCH, Chateau du Feÿ, FR
Gazelli Art House, London, UK
Q21 MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, AT
AI Palace Un-Conference, Buckeburg Palace, DE
RUPERT, Vilnius, LT
Commisions
red the ocean around U (2024), LAS Art Foundation, Berlin, DE
Line of Flight (2024), Serpentine Arts Technologies: Future Art Ecosystems, London, UK
Vaster Than Empires (2024), The Berggruen Institute x Ursula K. Le Guin Estate, Los Angeles, US
Dwellers Between The Waters:Foldings (2023), public art installation, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna, AT
Exhibitions (selection)
2024
*Dwellers Between The Waters: Excavations, Palacio de la Autonomia, Aleph Festival, Mexico City (s)
UMWELT, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena, IT
coded manoeuvres, CIVA, Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
In The Garden of Forking Paths, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE
Vision Weekend, Foresight Institute, Buckeburg Palace, DE
The Path To The Present: 1954–2024, EXPANDED.ART, Berlin, DE
2023
Dwellers Between the Waters: Foldings, MQ Art Box, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, AT (s)
Dwellers Between the Waters, EXPANDED.ART, Berlin, DE (s)
META CITY Architecture Biennale, Modern Media, Shanghai, CN
For Data You Are, arebyte Gallery x Chronus Art Centre, [online]
Are You For Real, ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, [online]
Extensions of Self, Francisco Carolinum, Linz, AT
My Rhino Is Not a Myth, Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, RO
DESIRE & DATA x Queering The Map, PHI Centre, Montreal, CA
1–1pr.f2r.sm., K11 MUSEA & Art Foundation, HK
Techno-Healing, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, HR
Algorithmic Empathy, EXPANDED.ART, Berlin, DE
Screen, Screen on my Phone, Who is the Fairest of Them All?, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
POSTGENDER, Vellum LA x UnicornDAO, Los Angeles, US
Additional works
Landscapes (2021)
(…) The works Landscapes by the artist collective CROSSLUCID are images created using generative AI and can be described as an in-between or, as the artists themselves put it, images „between portrait, still life, and expressionistic topography.“ And as the title suggests, the images unfold „landscapes“ that, thinking back to Borges, unite different futures and times of strange and fragile bio-tech bodies. It becomes clear in CROSSLUCID's works that with new, generatively produced digital images, attention has shifted from the visible to movement and algorithmic processing. These images, which continuously adapt and change, force a reevaluation of visibility. (…)
Text by Prof. Dr. phil. Marie-France Rafael
Dwellers Between the Waters (2023)
Dwellers Between the Waters (2023) is an AI-driven film and multi-channel installation, conjured as a series of hybrid rituals that mediate the space in between physical presence, trauma, memory, healing and virtuality.
Polyphonic in its artificially-intelligent framework, its numerous modalities could be experienced as a series of happenings that is chanted by various elemental entities such as waters, winds, earth, air, algorithm… as well as poetry, history, magic, human and more-than-human creatures…
Combing artificial intelligence with the practice of magic and alchemy, Dwellers Between the Waters seeks possible solutions in response to the traumas of the contemporary anthropos, while examining AI’s phenomenological and cognitive idiosyncrasy.
By evoking, cultivating and connecting various forms of consciousness in the virtual realms, Dwellers Between the Waters invites the ‘dwellers’ who inhabit in and among ‘realities’ to share their stories and experiences, which then feed back to the (so-called) reality as evolving strings materialising across both physical and virtual domains to invoke novel perspectives, catalyse the collaborative narration and a transformation of conceptual spaces. In close collaboration with a PhD scholar Oxi Peng and a musician Sayaka Botanic.
