Ivan Jakaric

The project unfolds as an immersive, non-colonial, and playful installation across extreme scales – from the bio (10⁻⁹) to the ludic (10⁹). It synthesizes βίος and ludus, physical space and digital reality, to explore biological interfaces, experimental bacterial food agencies, and playful permabioludic methodologies – within both the human body and the digital platform. It opens a portal for experimental fictions and interspecies interactions, where human and non-human agents – like bacterial species – engage in game-like interventions. The tongue becomes a ludic organ and symbiotic sensor – through it, we taste, smell, play, and host bacterial escapades. Internal and external non-human companions meet in a triangular meta-dialogue, co-creating perma-play. Brainwaves and microbial signals are collected and translated into micro-virtual landscapes inside the body. Hosting a table as bioludic interface and bacterial camouflage as a gesture of digital resistance, eating becomes a multispecies ludic act – within.