Living Systems
An ongoing body of computational work exploring how simple local behaviours become collective form.
- Year
- 2026—
- Medium
- Custom software, agent simulation and moving image
Current work · 2026—ongoing
Living Systems
An ongoing body of computational work exploring how simple local behaviours become collective form.
Enter the workPractice
I build artificial ecologies in which simple local behaviours develop into complex collective forms.
Read the artist statementCurrent work
Living Systems is still developing.
I am starting with one body of work and letting the site grow with it. New studies, process notes and installation experiments will be added as the system develops.
The system
Conditions, not images
I decide what is possible, but not exactly what will happen.
Each agent responds to local conditions. None has knowledge of the final composition.
Migration, reproduction, environmental conditions and time shape what the population can do.
The image only becomes visible at another scale: a trace of the population changing.