OVER ULTRA

In biology, the biosphere is defined as all those areas of the Earth where environmental conditions are conducive to the development of life. A biome is a large part of the biosphere, identified and classified according to the dominant type of vegetation or fauna. Since all living things live by interacting with each other, a biome consists of populations and communities of living things that interact in a given area. The definitions of individual and community are no longer so clear-cut.
Everything you ever cared about is in there. The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of the Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft when it was six billion kilometres from us, well beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the first photograph of the Earth taken beyond all the other planets in the Solar System. The idea to turn the spacecraft’s camera and take a picture of Earth from the edge of the Solar System came from the most famous astrobiologist of the 20th century, Carl Sagan. That picture is here. This image is home. It is us.
National boundaries and human artefacts no longer seem so real; only the biosphere, the only home of life. So over as an end, and ultra as a stimulus to go beyond and overcome dichotomies, especially those between the natural and the artificial, the organic and the inorganic, like two opposing factions that have been fighting for centuries for supremacy over a corner of this pixel.
OVER ULTRA is a reflection on the points of contact between two different practices, in a perspective no longer of bipersonal distinction, but of mutual contamination.