This work generatively unfolds complex interactions that emerge from the intersection of various artificial and natural media on a custom-developed cellular automaton. A cellular automaton divides the screen into numerous cells (unit regions), each of which updates its state according to specific rules—a process that, in this work, occurs in real time. Multiple colors corresponding to different “species” appear on the screen, each proliferating, coexisting, and being eliminated according to diverse rule sets.
Furthermore, the piece incorporates a mechanism that detects the level of human activity in its surrounding environment and dynamically reflects this data in the parameters of the cellular automaton.
Through the overlapping interactions among artificial and natural systems—regardless of whether they are within the same domain or across domains—the work generates an autonomous and ever-changing dynamic as a whole.
