A living creature ecology
What is alive
A living system
Biological machines
Cyborgs
Electrical organisms
A sonic creature
Being alive
What is being alive?
What is it like to be a Bat?
and if we will never know why is this question interesting?
Seeming a live
How does a creature seems alive to you and me?
Life
open system oraganisms that
maintain homeostasis
are composed of cells (sometimes not)
have a life cycle
metabolism
growth
adapt to their environment
respond to stimuli
reproduce
evolve
Aliveness
The living
Adaptability. Emergence. Evolution
What complexity might emerge from a system based on simple local rules in enitites in an ecology or composition of multiple cells, agents or modules ?
What characteristic behaviour or quality arises from such a system?
Strandbeest
Theo Jansen's low tech Strandbeest are fascinating creatures that live on the beach between the dunes and the waves. Through an iterative development and advancement of characteristic features through several versions of the Stransbeest, Theo Jansen has created a story of evolution within the Strandbeest species. This is manifested in these physical, surrealist chreatures that shows a great variety of behaviour and aliveness.
Bacterial Orchestra
Ecology of agent cells that listens and responds to their sonic surroundings. Evolutionary algorithms defines sonic outcome and communication. Humoristic mirroing and adaptive behaviour.
Felix Hess sound creatures
Felix Hess was inspired by the beautiful sound of frogs and their shy behaviour. Mimicking these principles he created frog instllations and other self-organising systems and moving sound creatures that seemed alive.
Living system sketch
Words on system: Multiple cell entities of simple logic modules that senses electromagnetic waves and by means of simple rules perform local behaviour with the output of sound and perhaps mechanical movement that generate more complex pattern or behaviour as a mesh/rizhome system. By placing multiple af these systems different places outdoors they will adapt to their situation and develop different characters, behaviour and qualities of soundscapes.
