Introduction
Visitors draw forms on a touchscreen that become virtual organisms in a tank environment. NTT ICC describes relationships among shape, movement, reproduction and audience intervention, documenting the collaborative production in 1994.
RESEARCH ACCOUNT
A-Volve: work and context
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Work, material and process
Visitors can protect or redirect organisms, while their shapes affect simulated movement. ICC places the work in a process-oriented artistic tradition and records collaboration with Thomas Ray. Adaptation and reproduction operate as designed rules, not evidence of newly discovered biological life.
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Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: generated form has consequences within this world. Artists design rules before a visitor draws and feedback after the form appears. This explains the relation between authors and participants more precisely than saying a computer automatically creates creatures.
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Sources for this account
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Continue with a comparative question
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Evolving Virtual Creatures.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Interactive Plant Growing.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 1994 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1994
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Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #240 · Work and artistic practice
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Date as recorded: 1994
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