Synthetic divergence – Hacking Artificial Life
Enter a simulation of artificial life that unfolds over the duration of the festival. By answering a few questions, each visitor generates a digital creature whose behavior, appearance, and personality are extrapolated from their input.
Once released, it inhabits a synthetic environment. Here it interacts with others, reproduces, mutates, and adapts as conditions shift. Each interaction creates divergence, splitting paths and branching possibilities that can be followed, traced, and preserved.
The installation explores how simple rule sets generate complex behavior, and how interventions act as hacks that redirect the system. Fragments of code become agents of observation and empathy, while each participant’s input reshapes the evolving trajectory of the simulated world.
