Introduction
Visitors guide virtual insects with a torch whose light can support growth or become dangerous. The work turns control and care within artificial life into bodily interaction, retaining the artist page’s 1994–95 creation range.
RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Phototropy: work and context
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Work, material and process
The artists describe movement that is too fast for insects to follow, or too slow to keep them away from a dangerous central light. Reproduction and disappearance form ongoing feedback. An everyday torch controls the virtual environment through specifically programmed relations.
Section sources: Phototropy
Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: the interface makes participation a question of responsibility. Its rules define which actions count as care or harm, an artistic design decision worth examining. Nothing here establishes that simulated insects experience pain.
Section sources: Phototropy
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 Interactive Plant Growing.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and A-Volve.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 1994–1995 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1994–1995
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Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #241 · Work and artistic practice
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Date as recorded: 1994–1995
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