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E-Volver |
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Erwin Driessens & Maria Verstappen |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~notnot/E-volverLUMC/E-volverLUMC.html |
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Descripció breu del projecte
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E-volver is software that includes an unusual collaboration between an "image-breeding-machine" and a human "gardener". |
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Descripció projecte
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The combination of human and mechanical properties leads to results which neither of the two would have been able to create alone. The machine has no notion of the aesthetic qualities of the evolved images, and the human can barely understand what internal processes are taking place.
This process of artificial genetics and evolution is controlled like the natural process of variation and selection. The process begins with a "primordial soup" (usually an incoherent tangle of moving lines and points and colored planes), and on the basis of the user’s personal preferences, this gradually evolves into an intriguing and coherent image.
In assignment of LUMC (Leiden University Medical Center) and SKOR (Foundation Art and Public Space), Amsterdam, we realised four E-volver breeding-units (top image) for the new Research Labs of the LUMC.
The E-volver software generates artificial organisms measuring one pixel. Each organism is made up of thirteen genes that together determine how the organism will behave on the monitor. The genes encode how to read the properties of their eight surrounding pixels and, based on the colour values that they find, tell the organism how to change the pixel on which it stands and to which pixel it should move to next. Eight different organisms coëxist in one culture. Collaboratively they leave their traces on the screen and create colourful and dynamic patterns.
The way images look is not only a result of the collective behaviour of the organisms, but also the result of human interaction. A user of the breeding-machine can deactivate one of the four cultures by using the touch screen. Voting out the least exciting images, devalues those particular genes and, simultaneously, upgrades the genes of the three surviving "pixel gardens".
In other words a group of organisms evolves that contains properties that generate the most intriguing collective image. That is, until the computer "resets", which happens when a predetermined number of votes has been cast. And then the whole process begins again. |
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Desripció tècnica
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Amsterdam |
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Netherlands |
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Revisat per
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bello bugallo, mónica |
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