metabiosis

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 19.00 untill 2.00 and organize special events in between, on top of or next to their art works.

The installation consists of three 8 inch monitors, displaying three separate ecosystems, and a computer that is used for the interface. In the three ecosystems a continuous process takes place of packets meeting, looking for eachother or trying to avoid others, reproducing or jumping to one of the other ecosystems. Happy and sad events follow eachother rapidly… birth, love, reproduction, death… At the interface computer you can insert your own packet into the system and follow its life on the three monitors. Small texts give information on who arrives, who leaves, who is born and who died.