PAUL VAN HERK

 

A speculative story of enclaved cities that have retreated from the wilderness in line with EO Wilson’s ‘Half Earth’ proposition. ‘Deep addressing’ (a drastic evolution on IPv4) stores history of interactions between the edges of the city and its surrounding wilderness. These two entities are separated with an urban-scale skin, each side of which stores the memory of the other in a mutually-assured archive. They interface via a bionic fungus called ‘fur’ that stores the information across its near-infinite surface area.