Sam Woolf's MSc Thesis

An Interactive Installation Artwork:
The Sound Gallery

Sam Woolf, 1999. EASy MSc Thesis, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, UK.
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Abstract

The aim of this project is to utilise ideas and techniques derived from the science of Artificial Life to create an interactive and adaptive installation artwork to be entitled "The Sound Gallery."

The field of Artificial Life has spawned a diversity of new artistic media and sources of inspiration. There now exists a substantial body of work belonging to the canon of A-life art, and a growing number of artists/scientists who are increasingly active in the field. "The Sound Gallery" adds a new artwork to this lineage, drawing its inspiration from other works of A-Life art, but also making some notable advances. It achieves interactive and adaptive behaviour in novel ways, making use of reconfigurable hardware technology that (as far as I am aware) has not before been appropriated for artistic ends.


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