Feeding Gaia -v1- -casey Kane- ((install)) May 2026

This instruction is alternately interpreted as profound or useless. In true post-internet fashion, it is both. In a culture obsessed with sequels, remasters, and definitive editions, Casey Kane’s insistence on the “-v1-” tag is a radical act. It says: This is not the final word. This is a first draft. The planet is a work in progress, and so is our guilt.

– Named for the hypothesis that the Earth’s biotic and abiotic systems act as a single, self-regulating organism. In Kane’s universe, Gaia is not benevolent. She is a slow, patient consumer of human waste, art, and attention. Feeding Gaia suggests that our industrial output, our data clouds, even our music—these are the offerings we shove into the planetary mouth. FEEDING GAIA -v1- -Casey Kane-

Kane has hinted in a rare Discord AMA (text only, no voice) that Feeding Gaia -v2- would involve “digestive waste as a fuel source for new worlds,” and that v3 would be “nothing but a link to a live feed of compost.” This gradual stripping of representation suggests that Kane sees v1 as still too metaphorical. The ultimate goal, perhaps, is to eliminate art altogether and actually, physically, feed the soil. This instruction is alternately interpreted as profound or

Kane has neither confirmed nor denied this. Because of the decentralized nature of Kane’s release, finding the original Feeding Gaia -v1- can be difficult. The original smart contract is still active on Tezos (token ID: KG-001), but the IPFS link for the video file has expired twice. Bootleg copies exist on YouTube under obfuscated titles like “stomach machine loop” or “gaia eating.” It says: This is not the final word

Imagine a 4K video rendered entirely in a 16-bit color palette. The visual center is a CGI stomach—translucent, veined, and nestled in a root system. Into this stomach, a conveyor belt slowly deposits objects: a crushed soda can, a deleted tweet (rendered as a glowing rune), a single grain of rice, a MIDI file of a funeral dirge. The stomach never closes. It simply absorbs.

This positions Feeding Gaia -v1- as a transitional object: not the thing itself, but a map to the thing. It is a prayer for a future where our creative energy is fully reabsorbed into the carbon cycle. Upon its silent release on a now-defunct decentralized platform called Rhizome.art , Feeding Gaia -v1- received three reviews. Two were negative, calling it “pretentious sludge.” The third, posted on a subreddit dedicated to “digital eco-horror,” called it “the most honest thing made this decade.”

Kane emerged from the late 2010s post-internet art scene, characterized by a cynical yet hopeful use of degraded digital textures. Unlike many of their peers who focused on human loneliness in the digital age, Kane’s work has always fixated on a different relationship: the planet as a sentient, hungry system. Kane has described Gaia—the ancient Greek personification of Earth, later popularized by the Gaia hypothesis of James Lovelock—not as a mother goddess, but as a .