Author Identifier (ORCID)
Brenton Rossow: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8284-1390
Abstract
This practice-enabled research presents a series of stills from the authors’ forthcoming experimental, generative AI film, The Spire™. Set in the not-too-distant future realm of Canhedonia, a polluted wetland bleeds into the edges of an industrial megacity. Within this eroding wetland–city threshold, morphological assemblages blur ontological distinctions of human and non-human, nature and culture, and animal and object. Human-made artefacts, flotsam and detritus from nearby industrial excess, combine with microbial life, plastic pollution, animal and human DNA, proteobacteria, and cultural paraphernalia to form fused and agglomerated entities.
Keywords
queer ecology, speculative morphology, generative AI, wetland environments, human nonhuman relations, technoecology
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
2026
Volume
7
Issue
1
Publication Title
MAST: The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory
Publisher
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
School
School of Arts and Humanities
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
First Page
15
Last Page
30
Comments
Tynan, D., & Rossow, B. (2026). Speculative morphological assemblages from Canhedonia’s wetlands: A queer ecology within the animated film The Spire™. MAST, 7(1), 15–30. https://doi.org/10.59547/26911566.7.1.02