# Building the Alien: Morphology, Mutation & Future Life

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**Date:** March 18, 2026 · 10:30 PM  
**Location:** JW Marriott / Salon AB  
**Format:** Presentation  
**Track:** Tech & AI track  
**Reviews:** 0

## Speakers

- **Shane Griffin** — Artist & Director
- **Claire Isabel Webb** — Director, Future Humans

What if we didn't just search for alien life—but built it? Drawing from Proxima Kósmos, a research project exploring how life and intelligence might emerge under radically different conditions, this session examines the intersection of scientific experimentation and design. Claire Webb and designer Shane Griffin present Xenoterra—a modeled world inspired by evolutionary robotics and AI—that reimagines how we define life itself.

## Transcript

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