PANSPERMIA panspermia.life NFT art site
^{#still #NFT}

An NFT art project about cosmic life origin.

"Pan": "all", "Sperma": "seed".

The project is a visual exploration of the concept of panspermia, which is the hypothesis that life on Earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space. The project is composed of a series of digital artworks that depict alien life forms and their environments. The artworks are created using a combination of generative art techniques and hand-crafted elements. The project is intended to spark conversations about the origin of life and the possibility of life existing beyond Earth. It is a journey of discovery, a journey of understanding, and a journey of imagination.

Cosmic life origin is one of the hardest questions demands persistent attention. Often when star gazing, one’s imagination zooms into the “future” while in fact we look back into billions years old light phenomenon. Future looking visions, fictions, fantasies, even dreams are always based on contemplation, reprocesses of the past, specially a metaphysical past. Mahayana buddhism has illustrated an unique and broad view of life phenomenon as whole and its working mechanism. Panspermia art project is fusing buddhism metaphysical views and scientific hypothesis together, creating a fantastical world of cosmic life forms, which also hinting some consensus between two seeming vast different views.

These life forms are generated with self trained machine learning models - StyleGAN2. by working with the machine’s “mind” - “the latent space” - a multi dimensional mathematical space where semantic vectors of what’s “learnt” are registered and stored. - for lack of better metaphor, it’s like deep diving into cosmos’ primordial soup, where abundance of life forms are found with constant startlements.

The endless variations of something “likeness”, something“could be”, something “bizarre and freaky”, something “completely unrecognizable” are all tucked away in nooks and cranks of the machines’ sub-consciousness, like millions of neurons who are in constant fluctuation and waiting for some clearer emergences. After experimenting with it I find the vast riches of probabilities and possibilities easily overload human perceptive faculties and collapse our categorical way of thinking. I wonder: does universe “creates” in the similar way? Or does universe “thinks" in this way? Or do androids “dream” in this way?

What I encountered in “latent space walk” has showered me how mother nature has always shown to me: strangest life form spurs, emerges, crossbreeds, evolves, mutates and trespasses “domain”, “kingdom”, “phylum”, “class”, “order”, “family”, “genus”, species boundaries in constant motion as if they following strange “selfless”, “non- differentiated” “collaborative” code or protocol at very fundamental level at beginning of genesis. what's regard as "alien","xeno","astrobiologial" only reflects our anthropocentric limitation of sense making.

No matter how exotic, bizarre, eccentric, even appear so deformed that un-recognizable to the common eyes, in Buddha’s gaze all life forms are inherited with illuminating seeds within, which are sentient resonances of the whole.