...As An Infinite Game

Movie-capture from Artificial Nature as an Infinite Game:

Exhibitions

First Workshop on Media Arts Science and Technology (MAST), The Future of Interactive Media
Corwin Pavillion / CNSI Allosphere, University of California Santa Barbara
January 29/30 2009
Juried exhibition.
MAST website.
Allosphere website.

Universal Electronic Art
Seongnam Art Center, Seongnam, Korea
October-November 2008
Invited installation.
Exhibition website.

thisAbility vs. Disability
Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
July 22 - August 24, 2008
Invited installation taking part in a group exhibition 'thisAbility vs. Disability', an affirmation of difference in disability through the creative transcoding of senses, curated by Byeong-Sam Jeon.

ASIAGRAPH 2008
Shanghai, China.
Jun 27 - July 1, 2008.
Invited installation.
ASIAGRAPH 2008 website.

Installation

The installation consists of a projection of a virtual world with touch-screen, video and audio interfaces. The virtual world is a visualization of information flow in open systems interweaving geological, physico-chemical and biological strata. Within this world virtual lifeforms evolve and grow. Spectators can witness, control and create beautiful, complex and generative patterns evolving from the behaviors of the species, as the organisms in turn interact with their dynamic environment. As a spectator gives his/her inputs through the touch screen or other sensors, he/she may change local fields of the environment, landscape or physical laws, and actively observe how the feedback systems produce new behavioral patterns.

The consideration of Artificial Nature as a living system with autonomous creative potential calls for a reconsideration of relationships between artwork, spectator and artist. All three living systems work together in the process of emergent creation. The locus of authorship is shared among a less hierarchical assemblage of living systems. Spectators will be conductors or performers playing a generative multi-domain open work. However, the method to conduct or to perform is not direct. The indirection invoked through the emergent environmental feedback of the A-life agencies is crucial to allow the integration between learning, playing and creating.