Two talks, the first by Stewart Bird on his project Zyme and the second by Justice Engineering. Stewart Bird will speak on ZYME, an ecosystem of software and techniques which produce source material and production tools for making visual artworks. ZYME began as an exploration of a single technique - blending the latent representations of two images to produce a hybrid “child” image, then recursively feeding the output back into the input, until the results took on the shape of a genealogy. From this starting point, a universe of procedural and systemic options revealed itself in practice to produce the current version of ZYME, and laid the foundation for future emergence. The talk traces a rough timeline of this development, and highlights how harnesses like Claude Code made more farfetched parts of the system possible that would otherwise have been too costly to build.