metabiosis

I remember I’m going to forget what I just remembered. Sampling one reality There is an essential difference between the analogue universe and its digital transposition. An analogue model is carried by a continuous signal while its digital alter ego codes the information in a symbolic way using a numerical system.

To give each packet of data its own personality and shape, i’ve made a shape generating script in PF. The shape is determined by the packets “DNA”. In this script the DNA consists of 4 random numbers between 0 and 9, linked to the following characteristics: sociability, speed, reproductivity and love for travelling. Some packets […]

Metabiosis will be shown during the exhibition Natural Habitat in the Netherlands Media Art Institute (Amsterdam, NL) between the 4th of November and the 16th of December 2006. The exhibition gathers works that create all kinds of new worlds, blending nature, technology and culture. Not the traditional doom scenario’s with 3 eared mice running through […]

For the workshop Go Forth! during Futuresonic festival in Manchester, I made a little example of how to hook Packet Forth to Pure Data using OSC. The PF part is an Lsystem that draws lines, step by step, growing into a little chaotic cluster. The PD part receives the string that generates the lines and […]

Recently I read some things about Lsystems and started building one in Packet Forth. L-systems are a mathematical formalism proposed by Aristid Lindenmayer in 1968 as a foundation for an axiomatic theory of biological development. The system I wrote works like any other Lsystem. It takes a seed and a rule on how to grow […]

We are working hard on launching the new and improved Metabiosis site! Estimated Time of Arival is september 10 2006. In the mean while, it is a mess on metabiosis.goto10.org :)