During his residency Marc Lee will develop CAON – control and optimise nature, a game that questions the limitations of technosolutionist approaches to species depletion and climate collapse, such as genetic engineering, synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. GAN created hybrid creatures based on their real-life counterparts populate a simulated landscape where AI and synthetic biology work together to control and optimise habitats and species. Acting as a testing ground to investigate existing techno-solutionist assumptions, the game challenges the understanding of nature as a computable system, and investigates alternative cartographic scales that might transform and construct new representations of the environment.