Monsanto Phantoms

about the project

An installation that makes the sound of monoculture visible. A 3D model of RR soy, built with L-systems in TouchDesigner, reacts to a sound archive from the four largest soy plantations in the Americas: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. Speculative sound design imagines these plains before 1996, and archival recordings document what came after. As the post-1996 frequencies reach it, the plant deforms, its particles scatter and it bursts into flames.

Sebastián Guzmán Becerra with Nicolás Gómez Salamanca, Hazal Ince, Jimeng Yang and Rahul Manoj. Audiovisual installation. TouchDesigner, Teensy, screen, soybeans. 2026.

client

Monsanto Phantoms

services

year

2026

location

Saint Etienne, France