This page is a publishing hub for the research of Marlon Barrios Solano and for collaborations with guests. The writing is in essay form. Guest pieces feed the ontology and the network directly: they are not side notes. They are meant to expand an epistemological framework.
The aim is to take embodiment and cognition beyond the human, and at the same time beyond the organic — including synthetic entities — in the proposition of cognitive assemblages developed by N. Katherine Hayles.
The four essays published now are by Marlon Barrios Solano: Essay 1 on cognitive assemblages and complex embodiment, Essay 2 (My Umwelt, written in conversation with GPT-5.5), Essay 3 on the ontology, knowledge graph, and the Hub as a cognitive assemblage — including Views as five maps of the same graph (radial network, ring chord, hive, layered DAG, path walker) — and Essay 4 on improvisational dance, real-time interactive multimedia, and designed cognitive systems in the Unstablelandscape series. Guest essays from the program will appear as the section grows.
Essay 1
Hybrid Intelligences, Cognitive Assemblages, and Complex Embodiment in the Era of AI
Marlon Barrios Solano · July 10, 2026
Essay 2
My Umwelt
Marlon Barrios Solano, in conversation with GPT-5.5 · July 20, 2026
Essay 3
Hybrid Intelligences: Ontology, Knowledge Graph, and Cognitive Assemblage
Marlon Barrios Solano · September 2, 2026
Essay 4
Designing Unstable Landscapes — Improvisational Dance within Cognitive Systems
Marlon Barrios Solano · *Tanz Im Kopf: Dance and Cognition*, 2005
Essay 5
Contemporary Art Making as an Epistemic Practice
Marlon Barrios Solano · February 4th 2026
This section will keep growing. New essays — from Marlon and from guests — will be added as they enter the Hybrid Intelligences knowledge architecture.