KIOSK: Boredomresearch
Boredomresearch (UK)
Biome, 2005
Custom Software, Computer, TFT Screen
Courtesy DAM[berlin], Berlin
Boredomresearch is a digital design studio founded by Paul Smith and Vicky Isley, who since 2005 have both been Research Fellows in Computer Animation & Computer Art at Bournemouth University. A biome's small circular window looks in on a vast sealed universe in which one sees a number of intricately patterned bodies going about their business. Observing at length, one will see an almost unlimited diversity of form, colour and pattern, as these creature-like machines enter and leave the viewable area. The biome works were developed after research into computational models used in the study of artificial life and the desire to implement these techniques in a way that explores properties present in natural systems and blurs the boundaries between nature and technology.
Boredomresearch is part of the KIOSK-gallery, curated by Yves Bernard and Domenico Quaranta.
