Installation, 2010

Cycles is an interactive work that tries to establish an intimate relationship between the visitor's physical body and an artificial living system. Inspired by concepts of identity based on both traditional Buddhist philosophy and modern artificial life research, it explores notions of transience and boundary in human identity and confronts the visitor with those currently shifting ideas.

About the Artists

Daniel Bisig is a senior researcher at the University of Zurich's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and at the Institute of Computer Music and Sound Technology, Zurich University of the Arts.
Tatsuo Unemi is a professor at Soka University in Tokyo where he teaches in the fields of Soft Computing and Media Programming.
Both Unemi and Bisig are active as scientists and artists and have collaboratively realised several interactive works for installation and performance. The simulation of biological behaviour forms a central underlying commonality in their works.

ISEA2010 RUHR Exhibition
Fri 20 August–Sat 5 September 2010

Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
Hansastr. 3
44137 Dortmund

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