We tend to see Nature and Technology as opposites. «Substrates of (A)Life» questions this divide. Just as biologists continue to debate where life ends and non-life begins, our technological creations, both physical and conceptual, share something essential with organic life. This installation makes visible the deep structural similarities between biology and technology. It places the precise timing of digital signals alongside the irregular firing of neurons, and compares cellular energy cycles with the self-regulating feedback loops of computer hardware. «Substrates of (A)Life» reveals that silicon and carbon are simply different materials running the same underlying program: evolution.