Very pleased to finally launch Cryptogamic Oracle, a new project emerging from my exploration of ponds, non-human computing systems, and urban moss ecologies. Building on my moss walk workshops, the project expands into more eco-technological territory through the use of an app for reflection, image-making, and slow observation. The app invites participants to notice overlooked urban ecologies and explore new ways of reading the city through cryptogamic life. Find out more here: Cryptogamic Oracle... Card example Card example composite image Upload screen Card gallery Reading phase
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Oracles and AI
A reflection on AI and oracular practices in relation to the Cryptogamic Oaracle Project.The Cryptogamic Oracle draws on recent work that frames AI and algorithmic systems as oracle-like interfaces: tools that produce signs, prompts and patterns, rather than fixed truths. St. Lawrence describes technomancy as a form of algorithmic divination, where platforms become part of how signs and meanings are produced (St. Lawrence, 2024). Prock et al. frame AI-assisted tarot as a practice of resonance, randomness and negotiated meaning (Prock et al., 2026), while Schroeder et al. describe AI as a hermeneutic technology, where meaning emerges through interpretation rather than machine authority (Schroeder et al., 2025). For me, this positions the oracle as a reflective form: not something that predicts,
Cryptogamic card deck (updated 11 June 2026)
These cardes are embeded in a data base within the cryptogamic oracle app - cureerntly there are 72. They are a work in progress. New cards are addedd removed as the project develops....In the app each user generated reading binds a new image to the cards and the full deck of cards with images can be seen in the app. Back to Cryptogamic oracle page here.. Up load screen Up load screen Reading phase Card gallery Card example Cryptogamic life The Spore Descriptor: Potential carried beyond its point of origin. Tags: dispersal, emergence, propagation Notice: What small sign of possible growth first drew your attention in this image? Relation: How might this site carry life, matter or influence beyond its immediate surface? Unresolved: What future condition is suggested here but not yet
