metabiosis

The 25th of April we will end our Fellowship at the Kunsthochschule fur Medien Koln, with a presentation of Metabiosis, and 2 performances at the Klanglabor.

19:00 talk
19:30 performance of d_u_w by Marloes de Valk
20:00 performance of Allesandra7351 by Aymeric Mansoux

Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk talk about their project “Metabiosis” and perform 2 compositions. This is the final presentation/performance of their research project “Metabiosis”, made as artistic fellows at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (KHM) from 1 November 2006 until 1 April 2007.

Metabiosis – Dependence of one organism on another for the preparation of an environment in which it can live.

Metabiosis is a collection of works about digital life and autonomous creation processes. We are developing, writing, sketching, investigating and working on a series of sub projects, with as a final goal a software that combines all our efforts. Because we are working in a modular way, we cannot predict the eventual results, but at the moment we’re working on creating small ecosystems on a network of computers. In these ecosystems you’ll be able to seed little packets of data. The packets are in reality only a set of numbers, but they do have some special features. The packets can jump to other computers with ecosystems, they can reproduce and they can die. This system of networked ecosystems, inhabited by self replicating data packets, is an experiment and a game for those who are curious about the possibility of digital life in the ever growing ecosystem of connected computers.