Project Number
- 89
Title
- Turbulence: An Interactive Installation Exploring Artificial Life
Description
- Art that views relationships between logic, purpose, vitalism, destiny, and human consciousness.
Contact
- Jon McCormack
Affiliation
- McCormack
Address
- 43 Birkenhead Street
- North Fitzroy, Victoria 3068
- Australia
- +61.3.481.7691
- +61.3.481.7691 fax
- North Fitzroy, Victoria 3068
- jonmc@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au
WWW
Year
- 1994
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 94 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Turbulence is a menagerie of computer-synthesized forms based on the new science and philosophies of artificial life - the formation of life-like forms and processes from materials other than those found in nature."
- "The installation operates within an enclosed space and is decorated to resemble a natural history museum from the previous century. There are two main components inside the space: an interactive multi media program and a projected animation from a video laserdisc controlled via a small touch-screen interface."
- Within the installation, the visitor can interactively evolve their own simple 3D organisms and be exposed to "looks at poetic relationships between logic and purpose, and their relation to fundamental arguments about vitalism, destiny, and human consciousness."
Sight
- graphics workstation, projection display, laser disc
Sound
- amplified sound
Touch
- touch-screen interface
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 106 - autonomous character, synthetic life
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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