Jurģis Peters

Jurģis Peters (Riga based artist) his artwork “The Cultivation of Domestication” in the framework of SensUs is based on contrarian hypothesis by the historian J.N. Harari’s, where he suggests the idea of the first “domesticated” cereals – wheat – which contributed to the agrarian revolution, actually domesticated us, not the other way around. An interactive 3D object is created using AI-generated images, addressing questions of plant-human relations in changing power positions.

Artworks

SensUs. Augmented Nature-Cultures, 2023

SensUs. Augmented Nature-Cultures, 2023