Life Spacies

1997, Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU

(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau

Life Spacies , 1997

Co-workers & Funding

supported by ATR Media Integration and Communications Research Lab.
Kyoto, Japan
and
ICC Intercommunication Center
Tokyo, Japan

http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/CONCEPTS/LifeConcept.html

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Description

"Life Spacies" is an interaction and communication space, where remotely located visitors can interact with each other through evolutionary forms and images.
"Life Spacies" enables visitors to integrate themselves into a 3 dimensional complex virtual world of artificial life organisms that react to the visitors body movement, motion and gestures. The artificial life creatures also communicate with each other and so create an artificial universe, where real and artificial life are closely interrelated through interaction and exchange.
A "Life Spacies" web page allows people all over the world to interact with the system as well: by simply typing and sending an email message to the "Life Spacies" web site, one can create one's own artificial creature. The creature will then starts to live in the "Life Spacies" environment at the ICC's museum, where the on-site visitors directly will interact with it.

CHRISTA SOMMERER & LAURENT MIGNONNEAU

Keywords

aesthetics
- animated
- immersive
- three-dimensional
genres
- bioart
  - genetic art
- digital communities (social network)
- installations
  - interactive installations
subjects
- Art and Science
  - biology
  - scientific images
  - space
- Arts and Visual Culture
  - theory
    - complexity
- Body and Psychology
  - genetics
- Media and Communication
  - Internet
- Nature and Environment
  - DNA
  - ecology
  - Nature
- Technology and Innovation
  - artificial life
technology
- displays
  - electronic displays
    - computer monitors
- hardware
  - cameras

Technology & Material

Hardware

1 computer with dual video output
2 video projectors
2 3D key hardware Interfaces
2 Camera tracking interfaces
4 video Cameras
Internet connection
email address

Interface

2 3D key hardware Interfaces
2 Camera tracking interfaces
4 video Cameras

Software

3D plant growth algorithm
3D creatures generator algorithm
Gesture recognition
Genetic Algorithm
Text to 3D form algorithm
reading and sending Email back with image attachments

Exhibitions & Events

Permanent collection: "Life Spacies" (online interaction)

1997

Bibliography

Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau. »Life Spacies II.« In Microwave – International Media Art Festival 2001, exhibition catalog, ed. E. Pau and T. Kong (Hong Kong: Microwave, 2001), 8-9., edited by E. Pau and T. Kong, 8-9. Hong Kong: Microwave, 2000.
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau. »Life Spacies: A Genetic Text-to-form Editor on the Internet.« In AROB’99 International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics Conference Proceedings, , 73-77. Oita: Oita University, 1999.
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau. »Life Spacies.« In Siggraph’99 Conference Abstracts and Applications, , 170. New York: ACM, 1999.
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau. »Life Spacies.« In SMAU’99, Milano, IT: 1999.
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau. »VERBARIUM and Life Spacies: Creating a Visual Language by Transcoding Text into Form on the Internet.« In VL '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, edited by IEEE Computer Society Washington, 90. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Press, 1999.
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau. »VERBARIUM and LIFE SPACIES: Creating a Visual Language by Transcoding Text into Form on the Internet.« In IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages Conference (VL’99), , 90-95. Tokyo: VL´99, 1999.
Sommerer, Christa and Laurent Mignonneau. »Life Spacies.« In ICC Concept Book: Exploring the Future of Imagination, edited by K. Yahagi and InterCommunication Center, 96-101. Tokyo: ICC Tokyo, 1997.

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