metabiosis

Metabiosis – pond is exhibited at the Netherlands Media Art Institute from the 15th of June until the 14th of July 2007.

pond was developped during a two month residency at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in which we investigated how the fragile transition regime between periodic and chaotic phases of a self organizing system can lead to complex behaviours with which an audience can interact. The two visualisation models of the processed information raise the issue of the matryoshka effect through the relationship between interpretation and processed data.

The pond installation consists of three interconnected machines. Each machine runs a simple ecosystem model in which small strings of data are produced, processed and sent back and forth from computer to computer.