The Multispecies Engagement Evaluation Program (MEEP) is an independent evaluation program established by the future Department of Interbeing (c.2082). MEEP was represented at ANAT SPECTRA 2022 by future envoys and independent arts evaluators Osmia and Aeolid who were invited to evaluate multispecies inclusion and participation in the symposium. Both evaluators are first generation multiplicity-natives, born multiple after the United Planetary Council’s introduction of the ‘No one is here’ legislation of 2045*. Their presence in our spacetime horizon was sponsored through a polytemporal partnership between the Department of Interbeing and ANAT 2082. Osmia and Aeolid are the descendants of present day (c.2025) creators Ana Tiquia and Audax M. Gawler. 

* ‘No-one is here’ recognises a multiplicity of beings, ways of knowing and being, and interdependent nature of all life and phenomena. This legislation centres the equity, inclusion, and care of all earthly (and non-earthly) life across scales as necessary for the continuity of life upon Earth.

Audax is a multigenre Symbiopunk working between disciplines to start the Symbiocene, a symbiotic, compassionate, reverent, post-anthropocentric planetary future. This immersive, research-driven inquiry fuses live and participatory methods, media-based inquiry, scenography, and speculative design to investigate the cultural, political, and ecological entanglements of interspecies relations.

Ana Tiquia is an artist and futurist who lives and works in Naarm / Melbourne. Ana’s artworks invite participation with other ways of being, doing, or knowing. Developed through participatory, relational, and speculative processes, Ana’s work asks how we come to ‘know’ the future, what constitutes ‘data’ on our futures, and how different worldviews and practices might seed new possibilities to the present. For over 15 years, Ana has worked creatively and critically with advanced technology and data in the cultural sector and is currently Head of Digital Strategy, Research & Insights at State Library Victoria. They are a proud Board Member of ANAT (Australian Network for Art & Technology).

The following Q&A was relayed to present day ancestors Ana Tiquia and Audax M. Gawler from their descendants and ANAT 2022 participants, Aeolid N5 and Osmia 7i. In their roles as Senior Evaluators in the Multispecies Engagement Evaluation Program (MEEP) Osmia and Aeolid attended ANAT Spectra 2022, conducting a full audit of multispecies participants across the symposium site and program. The following information has been retrieved utilising internal polytemporal processes from the Department of Interbeing. The Department asked that the following statement precede the text: 

This text is intended only for inclusion in history as necessitated by Cosmic Censorship Hypothesis and Ram’s Relativity Principles. As such it may only be published or distributed for use by the recipient. Temporally appropriate vocabulary has been utilised where possible and a glossary has been included for ease of engagement for periods earlier than 2060. Any information that may trigger fermi paradox or result in Maha wormholes has been redacted – the full transcript is available in the Department of Interbeing augmented archive viewable from 2082, Cloud Wave 1 Document Retrieval Number: xi59AO.e47 attn: Archivist Wendim H6x

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Tell us about you(s)r experience with ANAT SPECTRA.
We attended in the fold of the many beings homed in the symposium, we made our nest in the bacterial lip of water glasses and our root beds in the concrete slab beneath the gallery basement. Our intention was to ask ‘how well is the engagement between species at the symposium?’. We spoke with the air conditioning units and the mycelium in the oculus, to the algorithms and pigeons, to the humans and the banana peels. We felt parched being indoors so long, felt wet in the company of so much glass panelling, felt mineral in the company of bean bags. Together we found you(s) to be sensitive and sensible*, and curled up in your stories of species threaded into your bodies and world, we heard you(s) hum and scribble and yearn for the places that forge you(s). We learnt from your deep-sight*, saw the edges of the perception of peoples of the Descartocene* we saw in your the many horizons birthing, falling, becoming and were moved by it.

Read The Multispecies Engagement Evaluation Program ANAT SPECTRA 2022 Report

What or who inspires you(s) in the realm of interdisciplinary practice, and why?
The Pacific ocean, Creek, River, Storm pipe, Rain, storm cloud, Archipelago, constellation, Pollen, Birds, Microbiome, Womb, Seeds and roots, Glacier, Soil, leaf mulch, octopus, mold, titanium, parasites, salt, weeds, volcanos, and lichen. Of these many lifeways, it is Lichen in its interdisciplinary and interspecies interbeing that most roots our practice. Through them we first learnt to defy categorisation, to be unabashed in our fusion with symbiotic comrades in world making – as they consort freely with algae, bacteria, fungi. Because MEEP moves through warm data, soft knowledge, and collective storying, Lichen remains our guide in Feeling/sensing/sense-making with the many.
They teach us to dream othyrwise*— into the porous space between your now and ours—
where presence takes shape in forms both intuitive and concrete.

Name a cultural work (film, book, music etc) that inspired or challenged you(s)r creative perspective, and tell us why.
The early eleagic works of the North wind (year 1) are amongst our shared favorites, alongside the tectonic rift (roughly 750 million years prior to this text publication in 2025). We are pigeon* to any cultural works crafted by polyps but especially the The Coral Choir Codex (2078) the impact it had on regenerating so much of the earths oceans, alongside the Vesuvius echo-archives (2080) and the Fossil Feuge I-VI (2077)  which of course evolved from human author Ursula K. le Guin’s ‘Author of the acacia seeds’ (1978). Alongside  these, The Artist Placement Group (c.1965) continues to reverberate culturally in our spacetime horizon. Artists can be found, not only throughout the Department of Interbeing, but embedded across all bureaucracies, holocracies, and symbiocratic organisational forms, creatively provoking public servants and visioning poetic modes of being. One of our favourite public holidays and feasts – Steveni Day – honours ancestor Barbara Steveni’s work and labour to elevate the role of the artist in society.

If you(s) could collaborate with any figure from history or contemporary culture, who would it be and why?
We have always enjoyed the ongoing collaboration of the United Planetary Nations and their leaders Particle people, Beaky people, Leafy people, Algorithmic people, Fluid people, Quadruped people and Bipedal people, but perhaps our most longed for collaborator is you(s), dear reader.  We are always reaching back into the past to feel the many bodies dwelling in the fringes of our inheritance. Of course, we are already collaborating with you(s) all, we walk within you(s)r legacies, we drink you(s)r efforts to clean the water when we turn on our faucets, our cells shift and shape their intergenerational poems with the echo of you(s)r actions. We hope you(s)make space for the experts you(s) consume, that come from the tap, that form the shape of the chairs on which you(s) sit. We trust you(s) will try. We hope you(s) shift quickly from intentions to practice. We trust that you(s) will try. We hope you(s) mean to practice multiplicity. We trust that you(s) will try. We hope this is a beginning. We trust that it is.

What’s next? Tell us about you(s)r next project, collaboration or thinking.
We have no conception of ‘next’ as it appears in your horizon but understand you(s) mean a kind of emergence, a becoming, a (re)spiralling of the story you(s) are threading. In what appears to be a stretch of time between MEEP arriving at ANAT SPECTRA 2022, and you(s) perceiving these words, our auditors have meshed with countless other organisations in your near time-horizons, embedding best practice for multiplicity and multispecies inclusion across every facet of human life. ‘Next’ MEEP will assist in embedding the first cross cultural and temporal multibeing councils to support interspecies ancestral wisdom and pedagogies in every aspect of human culture. We especially anticipate the arrival of interspecies cultural practices such as Osmia’s favourite Ontological Orca Orchestras. We continue to watch ANAT SPECTRA 2025 unfold with much interest, and know this moment is a key turning point. We know those in attendance will witness the beginning of several relationships that will change the very fundament of reciprocity, of interspecies collaboration and planetary reworlding., and we hope that this information buoys you, and makes hopeful horizons seem within reach.

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*Glossary:
The Descartesoscene – The calamitous crisis caused by dualist disconnect and distrust of the senses, sense knowledge and sense-making. A non-sensible time; a time of non-sense.
Deep sight: The practice of co-visioning, attuning, reading ephemera and sense-able data in a manner which eludes singular descriptions or translations.
You(s)-  Pronounced ‘youse’ is a colloquial recognition of the multiplicity presenting as singular form.
Sensible – That which enables the long term maintenance of sensing and sense-making abilities. The practice of caring for bodies and acknowledgement of their innate intelligence. Making-sense, or to make sense-able.
Pigeon* – commonly used to mean uplifted or buoyed, (in reference to the Pigeon Paradise Parades in Northern Europe circa 2072)
Othyrwise – Indicates forms of otherness as they are encountered intimately as teachers, co-creators or kin, common usage adopted following Arthropod Author Agni Oslook’s Othyrwise trilogies.