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| LIFE SPECULATRIX | |||
in Collaboration with Cesar Branco |
'Life Speculatix' is a kinetic evolutionary physical skin based on analogue and digital environmental feedbackretrieved locally and remotedly through web feeds in real time. RSS feeds like air pollution, climate features will affect its performance continually interacting spacially and temporally with the environment and users. The membrane behaviour is composed by a matrix of levers and led's that are controlled by actuators (smart memory alloys) controlled by a micro-controller. The micro controlller, with the aid of a set of sensors and a webcam launches individual thread for each lever and respective LED output. These threads are activated in power bursts to contract the smart memory alloy and raise the levers in a seried of orchestrated random effects. These effects are meant to attract people around the piece and measure the degree of 'empathy' or 'rejection' towards the piece. A wide range of possible 'phenotypes' are generated and evaluated according to their 'fitness' based in some formal specified criteria. If not very successfully in attracting an audience the system changes the effects more rapidly and effusively. The membrane is controlled by a genetic algorithm reconfiguring its behaviours according to different stimuli and learning how to adapt itself to the evolving conditions of the local and remote environments creating a 'universal situated living piece' | ||
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