Primordial Soup Video Installation

Primordial Soup
allison moore 2008
Documentation of my video installation at studio xx. Project funded by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Primordial Soup is an interactive video installation based on the process of evolution.
The project integrates open source softwares such as Pure Data, GEM and Arduino 11 with motion sensors. Primordial Soup features animations of microbial forms I draw in Flash CS3.
The animations are then imported in PD and made independent using Boids algorithm. Developed by Craig Reynolds in 1986, Boids is an artificial life program, simulating the flocking behavior
of birds. Boids work in a manner similar to cellular automata since each boid "acts" autonomously
and references a neighborhood, as do cellular automata.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Pure Data
• Boids
• Evolution
• Origins
• Biology
• video
• art
• installation
• Arduino
• microbe