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The Interactive Morphogenesis project I did together with Ralph Kok and Irad Lee is accepted for the international art conference: Areas of conflu(x)ence - Art, Space & Technology in the Digital Age.

Location : Sibiu, Romania
Dates : October 4-7, 2007

In our project we demonstrated a concept for interacting with 3-dimensional Lindenmayer Systems (L-systems) models using live sound. Using the dynamics of L-systems, methods for visualizing and synthesizing sound are examined through recursive generation of virtual-artificial organisms. The project shows how L-systems can be used to visualize elements in sound and vice-versa, to demonstrate how sound can be used to grow L-system based, interactive artificial morphogenesis.

More info about the conference at: Mediamatic.net and www.2580association.info

Areas of conflu(x)ence proposes an international debate on the relationship between art and technology in the present digital era, focusing on the impact of the new media in our lives.

Today’s digital technologies have created a new model of understanding different aspects of reality. The change they produced compels us to reconsider the conditioning of our modern lives while their potential demands to be explored. Post-modernist syntax is today reevaluated and there are positions that support the thesis of a hyper-industrialized society.

Science and technology are expected to push forward the frontiers of knowledge, while art is asked to mirror these new experiences. The way we handle our lives and our expectations is changing continuously according to these new frontiers. The place we give to the different aspects of our lives and the spatial articulation of our activities are subjected to constant conceptualization based on a continuous flux of discoveries. What kind of models are we using in perceiving and understanding our new environment? If the tools we use have an influence on the way we deal with our environment,
how do we use their potentiality? What traps are to be avoided? What do we expect from technology? Should the new technologies be a matter of concern? By trying to answer all these questions, the conference intends to identify the present condition of our data driven lives and the factors that influence it.

On the basis of artistic and aesthetic experiences, we will study the ways in which image, sound and space are today affected by the digital technologies.

The conference will also include multimedia performances, an exhibit hall of innovative projects and tours of the art installations. [Mediamatic.net]