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What would a primordial organism look like in a digital world?
In this pixel soup of life and death, it only takes a certain combination of
electricity, code, and time for digital cells to emerge and grow into digital organisms.

The Game of Life simulates the birth and death of cells on a rectangular grid.
In theory, this rectangular grid is an infinite Life universe.
A cell is represented by a 1 (square) when alive and
a 0 (empty space) when dead. Being alive or dead
depends on a cells eight immediate
neighbors from the previous generation.

Life is a cellular-automaton developed by John Conway in 1970.
After running the code for Life, certain patterns emerge that
I capture and use to create automated, microbial "life-forms".


In Vitro

In Vitro, or test-tube experiments, describes a process performed
outside of a living organism usually in a test tube or culture dish.
The In Vitro vessels in this installation are Separatory funnels used
in organic chemistry. I filled each of the funnels with sugar, suspened
them from the ceiling, and projection-mapped a video onto each piece.
The video is content I created using a cellular automaton to show the
first stages of Life in a Primordigital Soup.

In Silico

In Silico, or computer simulations, describes a type of digital experiment
performed on a computer used in system biology. This installation builds on
the same cellular automaton created in my In Vitro experiemnt. The cells in
this installation are only exhibited on a screen, and they exhibit more complex
levels of organization.


Primary Culture

Primary culture describes a group of cells that are isolated using
mechanical measures, then are cultivated in a substrate such as glass
or plastic to maintain growth under controlled environmental conditions.
The cells in this primary culture have been isolated from both In Vitro
and In Silico experiemnts. They are being cultivated currently at the
Angad Arts Hotel in St. Louis.



Game of Life
Kunstformen der Natur


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