The presented work is part of the series Plastic Skins, Isometric Brains, which stems from a material realization: microplastics are no longer merely environmental residue — they are matter that permeates bodies, brains, ecosystems, animals, and biomes. Plastic has become the new skin of the contemporary being, a toxic membrane that envelops us from within and without.
The work explores the hegemonic discourse of artificial intelligence, which sells the idea of a disembodied, deterritorialized cognition floating in servers. As neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis argues, the brain does not exist without a body; cognition is an embodied phenomenon, the result of billions of years of evolution. It is in this sense that the works present disembodied brains — simulacrum of organs isolated in themselves. Language models are not intelligence. Servers are not brains. Statistics do not exhaust what thought itself is.
