TSA Terminal Archive

Xenobotanical Experiments: Synthetic Morphogenesis as Documentary Practice

The inaugural issue from Terminal Archive collects post-natural specimens generated through a two-stage computational process: procedural algorithms establish initial morphologies, which are then interpreted through fine-tuned diffusion models. The resulting forms, a speculative herbarium of xenobotanical specimens, exhibit structural logics that emerge from the entanglement of rule-based systems and learned visual vocabularies.

These organisms exist exclusively within computational substrates. The images function simultaneously as experimental outcomes and documentary records, rendered through diffusion models operating as imaging instruments for latent computational space.

Selected works exhibited at Computing the Lens: Research-Driven Images for Machine-Entangled Lives, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, 2025.

Xenobotanical Experiments
Full color on premium matte 100# (148 GSM) stock
8×10 in, 20×25 cm
20 pages

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