Adaptation- English ACM SIGGRAPH IRC (Sandro Alberti)

Paintings by Ito Jakuchu were used as prototypes to produce an immersive virtual environment that allows people to enter the paintings. The result reveals possibilities for new collaborative studies.

The computational world of Artificial Nature consists of organisms interacting within an environment, consuming flowing energy and matter to grow and survive, generating continuous patterns of emergent beauty.

A large umbrella acts as an overhead screen upon which animations shift through various destinations, with the top of the umbrella pole acting as a locator. Climate news, weather, and time are gathered from real-time RSS feeds and layered over an illuminated light-pollution satellite image of the globe.

Hundreds of satellite dishes infect a skyskraper like a disease. Or is it mankind's unconscious desire to barricade itself from real life, to slow down social life by consuming endlessly accelerating media input? The dishes are pointing in the direction of a distant satellite, expressing the disconnect between people as social beings.

The logical next evolutionary step is obvious; to embed electronics directly into the food we consume. Our electronics should be as consumable and as perishable as our food.

Data from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration processed to create animations of flight traffic patterns and density.