For Restoration/Regeneration, New Media Caucus 2026 Symposium, I propose to deliver a presentation focused on my recent layered, bio-political project, The Decoys. The Decoys is a layered three-channel video and kinetic sound sculpture installation that critically explores themes of pet ownership, speculative design, and tech-solutionism. It revolves around the narrative of my preposterous endeavor to restore the lost libido of my dear pet rabbit, Dudu, following my decision to have him neutered in 2018. My tireless yet doomed pseudoscientific attempts to restore his lost sex drive include an interview with the veterinarian who neutered Dudu; the construction of a sculptural sex doll for the rabbit; the fabrication of an inflatable soft robot; the creation of a replica of the artist’s legs (once the lustful focus of Dudu); and the production of a customized VR headset for a rabbit designed to offer a "seductive" 360-degree experience. The latter, which is the final tech-solutionist phase of the artist's quest, involved producing a 360-degree "rabbit porn" experience for the VR headset I fabricated, filmed at the farm of a rabbit breeder I have been following for the past two years. Throughout the three-channel video, it is unclear what is true and what is fiction, and if Dudu is indeed the subject of this experiment. In a disturbingly humorous speculative apparatus, the project delves into the intricacies and complexities of domestication and instrumentalization of nonhuman bodies and examines the perceived normative violence built into pet ownership. As part of a recent project exhibition, I created a DIY shake table, a device used to simulate seismic waves and stress-test the response of industrial structures and robots. My shake table is a kinetic sonic sculpture: it was activated by a haptic transducer connected to the soundscape of my video work (so it emitted a loud vibration when the video soundscape contained low bass tones) to metaphorize questions central to the video (for example: what is the point of a planned failure?). After observing how the shake table functioned alongside the videos, I am interested in further exploring its form and the sensory experience it emits. In my presentation, I will chronicle the meandering path that led to the creation of the project, which examines and reflects on Western social conventions (and their subsequent taboos) around interspecies cohabitation and domination. I will present open questions about domestication, breeding, and pet ownership practices, and open up a conversation about future imagined and feasible possibilities of restoring what has been lost in the context of nonhuman animal bodies. I will also discuss the formal aspects of the project: I'm interested in how I can push the image-sound dynamic in relation to the viewer’s place in the exhibition space, and how these sensory experiences and immersive technologies can allow access to another layer of meaning - one that is felt and not only observed - around interspecies cohabitation and domination within human-machine-animal relationships.