This project by Michael Sedbon created two artificial ecosystems of photosynthetic bacteria competing for light to explore the emergent behavior of technologies as life forms. I found this concept particularly interesting because I’m currently taking a class related to modeling cognitive and neurobiological systems of adaptive decision making, which shares some similarities with this concept in certain ways.
https://www.creativeapplications.net/arduino/cmd-experiment-in-bio-algorithmic-politics/
This project by Christian Mio Loclair is driven by a custom GAN solution called RayGan, which learns possible human poses through 120,000 postures of human bodies without understanding motion sequences. Visual elements like textures and colors are also generated through a separate GAN trained on a curated dataset from visual artists. I found the visualization of these human poses intriguing.
https://www.creativeapplications.net/openframeworks/blackberry-winter/
This project created by the Amana Prototyping Lab transformed basic rhythmic gymnastics ribbon movements into algorithms to create a systematized performance simulated in a 3D virtual environment and executed by the robot arm. The goal was to represent the sensibility of human movement using harsh robot mechanics, which is a concept I found quite interesting as it experimented with the contrast between fluid human motion and the rigid nature of robots.
