Vacas Peralta
Spain
Where do you locate yourself in relation to the systems you work with?
I locate myself inside generative AI systems, but not fully aligned with their dominant logic. I work from a position of proximity rather than mastery: close enough to engage their capacities, limits, and biases, yet intentionally resisting their push toward efficiency, spectacle, or purely technological self-reference.
My practice treats AI less as a tool for optimization and more as a co-author of speculative ecologies. I occupy a position where nature, mythology, and computation overlap—using artificial intelligence to imagine forms of coexistence rather than control. The systems I work with are not neutral infrastructures but cultural forces; my stance is to slow them down, soften them, and redirect them toward reverie, care, and ecological awareness.
Where are you heading, and what is pulling you there?
The vector of my practice moves away from extractive or hyper-futurist narratives and toward hybrid futures rooted in the natural world. What pulls me forward is a desire to explore how technology might participate in ecosystems instead of dominating them—how AI can help us imagine alternative relationships between humans, non-human life, and speculative beings.
I follow a direction shaped by curiosity and resistance at once: curiosity toward what AI can reveal when guided by intuition, symbolism, and landscape; resistance toward purely instrumental uses of these systems. The pull comes from the tension between the ancient and the futuristic—ritual, biology, and myth meeting machine vision—suggesting futures that feel ceremonial, fragile, and alive rather than purely technical.
How would you describe the space your practice is currently unfolding in?
My practice unfolds in a dreamlike, speculative space where technology and nature coexist without hierarchy. It is a space of vast landscapes—deserts, wildernesses, ice fields—inhabited by creatures and figures that seem to emerge from parallel timelines. This space is neither utopian nor dystopian; it is atmospheric, soft, and open-ended.
Visually, it is shaped by gentle color palettes, rich textures, and hybrid forms that blur distinctions between biology and machine, past and future. Conceptually, it functions as a reimagined coordinate system: one where AI deforms linear progress and instead opens circular, ecological ways of thinking. Within this space, technology does not erase nature—it becomes part of its mythology.
