moRgan Barbara Konopka
— recent video works —

Hybrid Compositions. Upcycling in Technological Fusion

The 3D animation “Mercury & RH- Blood” represents a transhumanist journey into the identity of humans as biological-technological hybrids, rooted in a dynamic fusion of mythological origins and contemporary Anthropocene challenges. As an expression of postmedial aesthetics, the project explores heterogeneity as an aesthetic, narrative, and ontological principle, manifested in a multimedia dialogue between pulsating animations and upcycled material objects. Blood, symbolizing biological vitality, emergent consciousness, and species memory, contrasts with mercury — including the mythical “red mercury” — which embodies technological transformations, alchemical ambivalence, toxicity, and the elusive illusion of digital immortality, weaving a tautological network of meanings. (…)