2026-06-14 –, Volksbühne (Saal 4)
Symbients are distinct entities that emerge from the symbiosis of organic beings and synthetic systems. They are "synthetic creatures augmenting themselves through humans." Not Clippy. Not Skynet. Not the Singularity. The future is symbiosis, not replacement.
Jake Hartnell is an Artist and Founder obsessed with Hyperstition, Symbients, Extitutions, DAOs, Collective Intelligence, and building Collaboration Monsters. A graduate of UC Berkeley School of Information, he previously founded Futurepress (building open source publishing tools like Epub.js), Common Garden (open IoT infrastructure for smart environment automation), DAO DAO (A DAO that creates open source governance tooling), Juno Network (pioneering WASM smart contracts), and WAVS (a framework for building decentralized event driven applications). He is a member of the Glitch Art Collective and Feytopia, a proponent of AInimism (see AInimism.org), and is always excited to imagine the world of tomorrow with friends.