Cycle 1: Joey Holder’s Abiogenesis & Charybdis

The first cycle of Unsecurities Lab will focus on two artworks by Joey Holder:

• Abiogenesis → Exploring emergence, synthetic life, and autonomous security risks.
• Charybdis → Examining coastal security, environmental unpredictability, and systemic resilience.

Through these works, we will investigate how cultural critique can shape interdisciplinary security models, bringing together curators, AI researchers, environmental scientists, and policymakers in structured dialogue.

Cycle 2: LUMI — Visual Sovereignty and the Defence of Landscape

Cycle 2 of Unsecurities Lab builds on the proposition that immersive artworks can function as environments for rethinking security. This workshop focuses on how contemporary planetary imaging systems—from satellites to synthetic photogrammetry—are reshaping the way landscapes are seen, interpreted, and secured. By bringing together participants from cybersecurity, environmental science, AI humanities, planetary sensing, and defence, the session investigates a pressing shift: from physical terrain to latent space geopolitics. What forms of knowledge, control, and vulnerability emerge when landscapes are treated as datasets rather than places?