| Title: |
| Life
Spacies II |
| Artist(s): |
| Christa Sommerer,
Laurent Mignonneau
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| Brief description of the work: |
| "Life
Spacies II" is an artificial life environment where remotely
located visitors on the Internet and the on-site visitors to the installation
can interact with each other through evolutionary forms and images.
An editor translates the written text of incoming messages into the
genetic code of a creature. |
| Materials, dimensions, duration: |
| Exhibited
as interactive installation requiring a 5 x7 m space, projection and
user input facilities. |
| Location (venue & dates, public/ private):
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| Developed in
1999, and shown in 2003 at "RESPOND - Body/Data/Space" at Sedwick
Museum, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK |
| Audience information (size, mode of participation): |
| At RESPOND,
audience members could build creatures by sending a text message to
a server. The text was interpreted as genetic code to determine the
look and motility of the creature. Users could feed their creatures
by sending further text messages which were interpreted as food sources.
Creatures could only feed on letters that formed part of their 'birth
code'. |
| Other information (reviews, collaborators, funders): |
| Permanent
collection of ICC InterCommunication Museum, Tokyo |
| Floorplan, scheme:
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| Visual/ audio-visual reference: |
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| Key theme(s): |
| Observing systems
in action; immersive play |
| Further context: |
| - |
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