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- Title
- The Struggle for ALife
- Author(s)
- Tofts, Darren
- Abstract
- As an essayist writing on Iconica; trans’forms, I feel a bit like Julian Huxley confronting the perplexing indeterminacy of ALife, with its curiously anachronistic gesture to our own 21st century conception of Artificial Life. There is something satisfying in writing about another work that also explores evolution, with its strict economy of the digital code, the infinite permutations of 1 and 0 that give rise to the lifeforms and ecologies of the virtual. Just as Huxley pondered the indefinite inflections of ALife, I am fascinated by questions of what it means, now, to be alive. [Introduction]
- Publication type
- Catalogue essay
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Source
- Paper appeared in the catalogue for Troy Innocent's 'Iconica; trans’forms', Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 28 September-03 November 2002
- Publication year
- 2002
- Keyword(s)
- Art exhibitions; Australia; Contemporary art; Innocent, Troy; Life
- Publisher
- Tolarno Galleries
- Publisher URL
- http://www.iconica.org/transforms/index.htm
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2002 Darren Tofts.
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