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_.noocambriidæ._ is a collaborative audiovisual work from ess whiteley and Andrew Wharton. In 1924 Vladamir Vernadsky coined the term the noosphere in conversations with Teilhard de Chardin and Edouard Le Roy to refer to the third stage in the earth’s development where the emergence of human cognition will fundamentally alter the geosphere and biosphere of the earth. noocambriidæ positions the noosphere not just as an emergent field but a substrate where entities can come into being. Synthetic/organic, digital/biological, virtual/actual, these monstrous entities are born out of the compost pile of the collective unconscious as it operates through cyberspace. noocambriidæ speculates on a second cambrian explosion of autonomous creatural forms born out of primordial cyborg potentials. Through 3D animation and 10-channel spatialized interactive sound, noocambriidæ acts as a nooscope into this realm of more-than-human behaviours and transmutations.