“Machine(s) of Loving Grace”: stories of a Cybernetic Ecology

Christoph Morlinghaus (German, b.1974) is a photographer whose work has been exhibited in solo and group shows statewide and abroad and is included in museum collections as well as private and corporate collections. After having lived and worked in London, New York, Bogota and Miami he now spends his time in the European Union. He works almost exclusively on 8x10’’ large format film and his print-sizes vary from 8x10’’ contact prints to 72x96’’ mural analog prints. Morlinghaus likes to photograph ‘anything that does not move’. 

Christoph Morlinghaus (German, b.1974) is a photographer whose work has been exhibited in solo and group shows statewide and abroad and is included in museum collections as well as private and corporate collections. After having lived and worked in London, New York, Bogota and Miami he now spends his time in the European Union. He works almost exclusively on 8x10’’ large format film and his print-sizes vary from 8x10’’ contact prints to 72x96’’ mural analog prints. Morlinghaus likes to photograph ‘anything that does not move’. 

Christoph Morlinghaus (German, b.1974) is a photographer whose work has been exhibited in solo and group shows statewide and abroad and is included in museum collections as well as private and corporate collections. After having lived and worked in London, New York, Bogota and Miami he now spends his time in the European Union. He works almost exclusively on 8x10’’ large format film and his print-sizes vary from 8x10’’ contact prints to 72x96’’ mural analog prints. Morlinghaus likes to photograph ‘anything that does not move’.  

Laida Aguirre is an architectural designer and educator. She was the 2017-2018 William Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan where her research ‘Careful Crates’ focused on the architectural and cultural effects of shipping. Her work has been exhibited at Storefront for Art and Architecture, A+D Museum, Berlin Art Week, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Oya in Oslo, and has been published in Pin-Up Magazine, POOL, and Art Papers. She is currently director of stock-a-studio, a contemporary architectural practice that explores architecture as a material and cultural agent.

Laida Aguirre is an architectural designer and educator. She was the 2017-2018 William Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan where her research ‘Careful Crates’ focused on the architectural and cultural effects of shipping. Her work has been exhibited at Storefront for Art and Architecture, A+D Museum, Berlin Art Week, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Oya in Oslo, and has been published in Pin-Up Magazine, POOL, and Art Papers. She is currently director of stock-a-studio, a contemporary architectural practice that explores architecture as a material and cultural agent.

Liam Young is a speculative architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is cofounder of Tomorrows Thoughts Today and Unknown Fields. He has been acclaimed in both mainstream and architectural media, including the BBC, NBC, Wired, Guardian, Time, and Dazed and Confused, is a BAFTA nominated producer and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum and MAAS in Sydney. He has taught internationally at the Architectural Association, Princeton University and now runs the ground breaking MA in Fiction and Entertainment at Sci Arc in Los Angles. 

Liam Young is a speculative architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is cofounder of Tomorrows Thoughts Today and Unknown Fields. He has been acclaimed in both mainstream and architectural media, including the BBC, NBC, Wired, Guardian, Time, and Dazed and Confused, is a BAFTA nominated producer and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum and MAAS in Sydney. He has taught internationally at the Architectural Association, Princeton University and now runs the ground breaking MA in Fiction and Entertainment at Sci Arc in Los Angles.