Liminal Blooms: Hybrid Ecologies 

Making Kin with Ireland's Endangered Species 

Liminal Blooms: Hybrid Ecologies emerges from a practice-led investigation into the entangled futures of biodiversity and machine learning. In the face of Ireland’s accelerating ecological collapse, this exhibition explores how algorithmic processes can participate in speculative acts of remembrance and care for endangered species.

Drawing on small, curated datasets of native Irish insects and wildflowers — including the great yellow bumblebee, the pearl-bordered fritillary, and the green-flowered helleborine — the project uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion models to imagine a new kind of meadow: one where species dissolve, reconfigure, and hybridise through code. The resulting images are not scientific illustrations or stable taxonomies, but liminal forms, flickering thresholds between memory and disappearance, signal and noise.

Through video, print, and generative visual works, Liminal Blooms invites reflection on non-human kinship, ecological loss, and the possibilities of technological co-evolution. It asks: What might it mean to make kin with endangered life through the interface of machine learning? And how might such work resist aestheticising extinction while remaining accountable to the ecologies it draws from?

This is not an archive of loss, but a provocation, a call to reimagine how we listen to, look at, and live alongside species on the brink.