Nature 2.0: Art, Algorithm, and the Mutations of the Living

In this lecture, artist Miguel Chevalier reflects on his career, presenting the central themes of his current research. The event is part of the Festival of Future Storytellers, a collaboration between FOFS, HFF Munich, TUM Centre for Culture and Arts, and Kunsthalle Munich.

Free of charge. No registration required. The lecture will be held in English.

Nature 2.0: Art, Algorithms, and the Mutations of the Living

For over four decades, Miguel Chevalier has been exploring both the visible and invisible dimensions of life through the lens of digital technology. In this lecture, the artist reflects on his career and presents the main themes of his ongoing research into a reprogrammed nature — one reinvented through algorithms, data flows, and generative aesthetics. Through emblematic series such as Fractal Flowers, Digital Abysses, and Meta-Nature AI, Chevalier questions our relationship with living systems in the age of artificial intelligence, simulation, and co-creation with machines.

Algorithms become poetic tools capable of generating new forms, imaginary ecosystems, and hybrid species — at the crossroads of the real and the virtual. Yet Chevalier’s work does not remain confined to the immaterial realm of the digital. He embraces a post-virtual approach, in which algorithmically generated worlds of code and light take on tangible form as sculptures, engravings, 3D prints, holograms, or site-specific installations. Beginning in the virtual, he returns to the real — not to reproduce it, but to reveal its complexity, beauty, and fragility through new lenses. His work is in constant metamorphosis, at the intersection of science, art, and contemplation.