From the makers of Inscript—we welcome Fleuron, a three-day online festival for all things at the overlap of botany and technology. Join us online from April 23–25 for the most inspiring creators working at the overlap of botany, design, illustration, and tech.

The name fleuron comes from the design term for a flower-shaped ornament or motif, so the festival starts with and centers tech and craft-forward illustration, while also taking the opportunity to dive into deeper topics exploring the relationship between the plant world and technological innovation.

Ticket registration is already open! $33 for three days of talks, and six months of access.

Curators

  • Eric Jacobsen

    A creative developer based in NYC, Jacobsen began his career at the dawn of the web, navigating a terrain filled with flashing GIFs and <blink> tags. Jacobsen is the go-to developer for the creative community, collaborating with notable designers including Timothy Goodman, Wade Jeffree, and Jessica Walsh. Jacobsen has also developed platforms tailored for design audiences, including SVPPLY, LookWork, and WhrWhn.

  • Ksenya Samarskaya

    Samarskaya is a strategist and creative practitioner focusing on all things typographic and pedagogical, with regenerative futures regularly on her mind. Samarskaya has led a type and branding practice, Samarskaya & Partners, since 2011, and is highly active in the greater community as an AGI member, past board member at AIGA/NY and ATypI, and past TDC director. She teaches type and creative strategy worldwide.

  • Vincent Wagner

    Vincent Wagner is a Vienna-based lettering artist, 3D, and motion designer. Wagner also runs a dimensional type foundry, Type Computer, where he offers a growing list of retail typefaces and gives away some libre typefaces as well. He was one of our speakers at the first Inscript, and a pivotal ally in making these events what they are.


Presentations & Discussions

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    Wed, Apr 23
    01:05 PM GMT

    AI for Preserving Climate

    When Google approached Dada Projects to visualise AI in the climate space, we embraced the challenge, countering AI’s dystopian narrative by exploring AI’s role in predicting climate change and protecting ecosystems. The project projects a vision of AI as organic, fluid, and in harmony with nature—coexisting rather than dominating.

    Dada Projects

    Dada Projects is a female-led studio building an alternative future for 3D design. We use new technologies to produce unique animations that challenge convention and imagine speculative realities. Collaboration, experimentation and inclusivity are at the heart of our international work spanning commercial, cultural, fashion, tech and lifestyle.

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    Wed, Apr 23
    01:35 PM GMT

    On Digital Composting

    What happens when we let digital matter die? This participatory session explores the practice of digital composting—a ritual for facilitating the decomposition of digital objects, ideas and identities. By acknowledging the impermanence of online material and rejecting the pressures of preservation, we will allow them to become fertile ground for something new to grow.

    Matthew Prebeg

    Matthew Prebeg is an artist, designer, researcher, and technologist. His creative practice explores digital culture and techno-ecology. His professional practice focuses on human-centred service and system design and meaningful community engagement.

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    Wed, Apr 23
    02:05 PM GMT

    Digi-Botanica: Growing a Digital Herbarium from Archival Roots

    Explore the intersection of generative design and archival imagery through 'The Herbarium of Digi-Botanica'. This project reimagines botanical forms using a rule-based system in a 3D digital environment. The talk delves into the creative and technical process behind crafting a fictional digital flora, questioning traditional design methodologies and exploring new ways to merge computation with visual storytelling—pushing the boundaries of how we interpret and create with archival materials.

    Anjori Tandon

    Anjori Tandon is an Indian-born, Amsterdam-based interdisciplinary graphic designer. She holds a Master's degree in Visual Communication Design from Aalto University, Finland. Her design approach is non-conformist, and experimental. Always exploring new tools, she thrives on versatility. She enjoys crafting visual stories inspired by the world beyond the digital bubble.

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    Wed, Apr 23
    02:35 PM GMT

    How will the flower bloom in 2100?

    As the earth’s climate changes, flowers bloom. If it is a dry year or a wet year, a sunny spring or a cloudy one, they bloom differently. Annelie will present the process of creating Plant Futures, an artistic research project into how flowers literally represent climate data. Looking at just one flower, how do different climate conditions yield different flowers? And how might future climate yield future flowers? Annelie will share the design of the future Circaea alpina flower, as it morphs from 2023 - 2100, becoming a living canvas of future climate data.

    Annelie Berner

    Annelie Berner is a data designer, researcher and teacher based in Copenhagen. She works with data and design to bridge science and the public, creating experiences of research on topics that of climate, ethics and futures. She has won multiple honours in the Core77 Design Awards, Information is Beautiful, was recently selected for the European Media Art residency, and has exhibited work at the Smithsonian Museum, World Health Organisation, Georgia Museum of Art, Ars Electronica among others.

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    Wed, Apr 23
    03:05 PM GMT

    From Handcraft to Algorithm: My Creative Journey with AI

    In this talk, I’ll share my creative journey, from early handcrafting experiences to incorporating artificial intelligence into my art and design. Exploring techniques, challenges, and discoveries, I’ll discuss the development of digital brushes, AI-driven aesthetics in fashion and textiles, and how to maintain authenticity while working with technology. With both technical and artistic insights, I’ll demonstrate how tradition and innovation can merge to expand creative possibilities.

    Hanna Inaiáh

    Hanna Inaiáh is a fashion and print designer, digital artist, and AI researcher. She founded her brand in 2009, working for over a decade before opening her studio in 2020 to collaborate with brands. Her work in artificial intelligence applied to textiles has made her an internationally recognized reference. She blends art, technology, and craftsmanship to explore new creative possibilities. Her experience includes collaborations with Farm Rio, Reserva, and Sig Bergamin, and her work has been featured in WGSN, Viewpoint Colour Magazine, and international exhibitions.

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    Wed, Apr 23
    03:35 PM GMT

    Andrea Miu

    Based in Berlin but endlessly wandering, Andrea Miu reimagines the connections between nature, technology, and mythology. A storyteller at heart, Andrea’s digital art is a fusion of poetry and design, exploring themes of transformation, ecology, and identity. Using tools like 3D scans, AI, and render engines, she invites us to envision a new reality—where the organic and inorganic unite seamlessly.

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    Thu, Apr 24
    01:05 PM GMT

    Tega Brain

    Tega Brain is an Australian artist and environmental engineer born when atmospheric CO2 was below 350ppm. Her work addresses issues of ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure and has taken the form of digital networks controlled by environmental phenomena, schemes for obfuscating personal data, and a wildly popular, online smell-based dating service. Through these provisional systems she investigates how technologies orchestrate and reorchestrate agency.

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    Thu, Apr 24
    01:35 PM GMT

    Hayk Zakoyan

    Hayk Zakoyan is an Armenian media artist, visual artist, lighting designer, and music composer, who reimagines reality through generative art and creative coding techniques.


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    Thu, Apr 24
    02:05 PM GMT

    Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir, XK Studio

    Founded by artists Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir, XK studio is an art, design and motion practice, with experimentation at its core. Drawing inspiration from the worlds of nature, fashion and art, XK Studio focuses on reimagining these concepts and exploring the boundaries of beauty through a digital, futuristic lens.

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    Thu, Apr 24
    02:35 PM GMT

    The Screenless Office

    The Screenless Office is a system for working with media and networks without using a pixel-based display. I position it as an Artistic Operating System rather than a universal solution. It gives me a way of participating in contemporary digital, networked culture using alternative aesthetics and values. It's not very fast but this tempo has an advantage in that older, low-power hardware will work just as well as newer equipment. So I also posit the technique as an example of more sustainable permacomputing practice.

    Brendan Howell

    Brendan Howell is an artist and a reluctant engineer. He is the creator of numerous interactive artworks and inventions. Additionally, he has spent a lot of time teaching digital practices in applied and fine arts at various European higher education institutions. He lives in Berlin, Germany but can often be found walking in wooded areas of Northern Europe or enjoying pastoral life in Hacksneck, Virginia, USA with his extended family. .

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    Thu, Apr 24
    03:05 PM GMT

    Alfieri Pablo, Playful

    Pablo Alfieri is a Barcelona-based director, designer and motion artist, and founder of creative collective, Playful. His formidable body of award-winning work for brands like NARS, Estée Lauder, Amazon, Nespresso, and Hourglass, alongside his personal projects, has led him to become one of the world’s most sought-after artists in his field.

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    Presentation
    Fri, Apr 25
    01:05 PM GMT

    Generative Cities: Algorithmic Art in Urban Architecture

    Seohyo explores the intersection of generative art, urban architecture, and large-scale screens in this talk. Rather than treating screens as mere displays, she sees them as architectural extensions that interact with their surroundings. Her algorithmic visuals integrate into the urban environment, reshaping public spaces through dynamic, site-specific compositions. The talk also introduces her daily coding project, where she shares generative experiments regularly. Seohyo highlights how generative art can transform cityscapes, creating immersive experiences that blend technology and architecture.

    Seo Hyojung

    Seohyo created installation and performance-based works that transform everyday objects through media technology. Expanding into generative art during the pandemic, she develops algorithmic animations inspired by mathematics and nature. Her works have been displayed on urban billboards worldwide, including in Seoul, Tokyo, Paris, Utrecht, Hangzhou, and Singapore. She has also participated in major festivals and biennales such as SIGNAL, BLINK, Demo Festival, SIGGRAPH, and the Seoul Mediacity Biennale, showcasing her dynamic approach to digital and urban art.

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    Fri, Apr 25
    01:35 PM GMT

    Unearthed: Crafting in the Space Between Nature and Technology

    This talk explores the journey of Unearthed, from its beginnings in the ruins of a German monastery to its evolution as a collective merging traditional craft with digital innovation. By mimicking nature’s ecosystems, Unearthed explores forms that exist between the organic and the artificial. Through hands-on making, experimentation, and exploration, the collective blurs the boundaries between the natural and the digital, redefining the relationship between craft, technology, and the organic world—pushing the limits of what it means to create in dialogue with nature.

    Clara Schweers, Delphine Lejeune, and Kurina Sohn

    As a collective, we question the notion of categorizations, explore interspecies connections, and delve into the realm of digital hybrids across our various projects. Our collective took root during a summer residency in 2021 in Bremm, Germany, where Clara Schweers {DE}, Delphine Lejeune {BE}, and Kurina Sohn {KR} converged and rooted in the Netherlands. Comprising design researchers, makers, and storytellers, we combine a fusion of perspectives. Our combined and individual efforts span image research, material experiments, and immersive installations. Noteworthy exhibitions of our collaborative projects include showcases at the MKG Hamburg, Museum of Applied Art and Design in Vilnius, Miami Art Week, Unfair Amsterdam, Alcova, Millen House Gallery, Collectible Brussels, Mouches Volantes, Klosterstube Ruine, and Gold+Beton in Germany.

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    Fri, Apr 25
    02:05 PM GMT

    Machines in the Garden: Technology and Creative Cultivation

    In this presentation, artist Lake Heckaman reveals the fusion of nature and technology that informs his new media work. He draws parallels between plant growth and the creative process, explores reality capture as a tool for documenting transformation, and examines technology’s role in mediating social connectivity with physiological and ecological impacts. The talk offers audiences a behind-the-scenes look at creative processes, inviting discovery of a blend of organic and digital artistry that fosters sustainable creativity.

    Lake Heckaman

    Lake Heckaman is a Brooklyn-based new media artist exploring how technology alters human perception and interpersonal connection, often through spaces he transforms into interactive environments where viewers shift from passive observers to active participants.Inspired by the familiar yet abstract beauty of the natural world, his works incorporate cutting-edge computer graphics and machine learning technology to illustrate the reciprocal forces that humans, technology and the environment exert on each other.

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    Fri, Apr 25
    02:35 PM GMT

    Texere

    From weaving to forming language, how analog motifs and patterns that surround us speak of culture, societies and beliefs and how they carved the digital language of today. The talk dives into the creative journey as I shift towards building an artistic practice at the intersections of weaving and the ordinary - exploring how motifs witness the everyday and symbolise relationships while holding stories within them.

    Tulika Shrivastava

    Tulika draws parallels between being an artist and a designer by allowing the mediums, crafts, and processes to speak, breathe, and see through her works. Navigating the space between being a designer focused on functionality and practicality, and an artist who lives in the fleeting moments of the everyday. Taking influences from craft, and the ordinary around her, she attempts to encapsulate an essence of life—paying homage to moments, memories, and experiences that may get looked over, forgotten, or go unnoticed yet hold valuable spaces—for inspiration and creation.

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    Fri, Apr 25
    03:05 PM GMT

    In this talk, Stormy discusses the creative process behind an editorial project developed for The Verge that examines the emotional complexities of human relationships with AI companions. By combining practical effects, floristry, projection mapping, and AI-generated video, Stormy explores the challenges and inspirations of each visual asset- from lighting design to floral choices- and discusses the significance of creative experimentation. It's a behind-the-scenes look at one of Stormy's most meaningful projects to date.


    Stormy Pyeatte

    Stormy Pyeatte is an independent artist, photographer, videographer, and social media content creator living in London, UK. Both left and (mostly) right-brained, Stormy blends her techy-know-how and sense of imagination to craft a wide variety of social media content for brands.

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    Fri, Apr 25
    03:35 PM GMT

    Chris Coleman

    Chris Coleman was born in West Virginia and he received his MFA from SUNY Buffalo in New York. His work includes sculptures, videos, creative coding and interactive installations. Coleman has had his work in exhibitions and festivals in more than 25 countries including Brazil, Argentina, Singapore, Finland, the U.A.E., Italy, Germany, France, China, the UK, Latvia, and across North America. He is a Professor of Art & Technology and the Director of the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design at The Ohio State University.

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