Metabiosis is a collection of experiments about software art and digital processes. We are developing, writing, sketching, investigating and working on a series of pieces, or nodes, that are connected with each other. Each node is motivated and built around the questions left by the previous one. Because we are working in a modular way, we cannot predict the eventual results. Metabiosis is an artistic experiment for those who are curious about so-called generative and self-organizing systems in the ever growing ecosystem of connected machines.
Photo is from “Hello Process,” a “theatre of naive computation”:
A file of 128 blocks is created. In this file, each block can be occupied by a small piece of code. Every piece of code has its own strategy. Some try to conquer as many blocks as possible, others simply target one specific piece of code or an unsuspecting neighbour. When the process is set in motion, all blocks are executed one after the other. This results in a battle between the file’s inhabitants. After forty iterations, a fresh file is created with a new combination of code.
Each piece of code has a special ID. This ID is sent to the printer every time the block is loaded in which the code is residing. Each printed line represents the result of one battle cycle. 128 small graphical representations of code are printed. This process repeats 40 times, creating a map of abstract patterns depicting the changes that took place.
