EuglPollock: Rethinking Interspecies Collaboration through Art Making

Humans are no longer the exclusive creators of art; art can now be produced by non-human actors such as artificial intelligence, machines, or animals. This paper presents EuglPollock, a platform for creating artwork through interactions between humans and algae called Euglena gracilis. Through light-mediated interactions between human users and microorganisms under a microscope, EuglPollock generates various versions of artworks, each of them unique and non-repeatable. This paper proposes a new method to create art while simultaneously raising interest in microorganisms and microbiology through interspecies collaborations.