_instillLife

Responsive installation, 2012
With Tijs Ham
Exhibited at FIBER Festival, Amsterdam, 2012

A responsive installation situated between bio-art and sound-art, drawing both its artistic inspiration and methods from living systems.

Covered in darkness, a biotechnological creature glows in space, broadcasting signals. Controlled by a pattern-seeking digital brain, fluids are rhythmically pumped through its transparent veins. In an ever-evolving series of calls and responses, the work tries to obtain its own musical and visual language - guided by artificial creativity, expressed through an organic body.

A sensory system scans its surroundings for other entities to interact with. Approach, and you witness an intricate private performance: a playful combination of dripping liquids with bioluminescent disturbances. Step away, and it slips into a lucid dream state, contemplating its own existence by developing new patterns and modifying the old.

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