metabiosis

Workshop Packet Forth!
16 December 2006
13:00 - 18:00
Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Koln, DE
Guests: Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk
Kunsthochschule fur Medien Koln and GOTO10

Here are some photo’s of the Herbarium workshop, participants designing the “DNA” of their plant and some of the results of their efforts:

We are currently doing a series of 30 minutes long workshops with Amsterdam schoolkids aged 12 to 16. The classes visit the Netherlands Media Art Institute during the exhibition “Natural Habitat”. In the workshop they design their own virtual plants and make them grow on a computer. They give the plant a name and a [...]

This saturday the exhibition “Natural Habitat” had its official opening at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Our installation “Go forth & *” had its first public appearance here. It was a great succes. The exhibition was visited by a large audience, due to the annual Museum n8, where 40 Amsterdam museums open their doors from [...]

From the 1st of November 2006 until the 1st of April 2007, we are doing a Fellowship at the Kunsthochschule fur Medien Koln. We will be working on the core software of the Metabiosis project for 6 months, we’ll be visiting the KHM for presentations, workshops and to participate in the classes of professor David [...]

We’ve now implemented the jumping of datapackets from one ecosystem to the next. We have also been working on the visualisation of the process. Newborn packets are surrounded by a circle, fertile packets glow and dying packets fade… We will continue to work on the visualisation and networking of the ecosystems.

In our “go forth & *” software, we’ve now implemented the previously mentioned shapegenerator. We also introduced fertility cycles, reproduction and the prevention of over- and underpopulation. Our next step is making the packets jump from one ecosystem to the next.

Saturday 14 october, 22.30 hrs
Piksel festival, Bergen Norway
d_u_w by Marloes de Valk

The “Digital Feedback as another State of Matter. Automated Creation Processes as a new Clay” text (http://metabiosis.goto10.org/2006/09/12/another-state-of-matter/) is being published by ap (http://1010.co.uk) for [the] xxxxx [reader] POD book.

Miniphy is a Packet Forth words library that provides various simple math shortcuts and handy functions that can be useful to handle simple 2D vectors.