Resources pertaining Art from our Artificial Life category

Amoebic Lifeforms - Visual forms of artificial life created in Shockwave.

Art Using StarLogo - Images created by the motion of artificial life. Simulation constructed using the StarLogo modeling environment.

Artificial Painter - The Artificial Painter (AP) software package uses a Genetic Algorithm on Neural Networks

Bomb: A visual-musical instrument - Alife that responds to a music or a keyboard.

David Rokeby - Interactive Sound and Video Artist.

Emergent Systems: Kenneth E. Rinaldo - A site of artificial life electronic sculpture that looks to the confluence of the biological and technological.

Kandid - A genetic art project to evolve graphics. New forms can be found using genetic algorithms. There is no fitness function included: the user decides which images are interesting.

Karl Sims - A retrospective gallery with links and interviews.

Living Melodies - An artificial-life model that generates music/MIDI

Mitchell Whitelaw - Critical

Panoptico - Software art based on artificial life algorithms by Iván Abreu.

SBART - An image breeding program using artificial selection to evolve images similar to Karl Sims.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry - This is a very complete description of the prisoner's dilemma and its variations.

Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny - This paper discusses the notion of emergence

The GenBebop Project - A project using genetic programming to produce interactive jazz programs.

The Temple of Alife - Artists at Fusebox see Alife algorithms as a starting point for a new artistic exploration.

Virtual Unrealities - Examples of real-time 3D interactive installations: Biotica