Artifact & artifice: views on life

  • Authors:
  • Alan Dorin

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Electronic Media Art, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Morel, Clayton, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Life
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The views of some artists on what constitutes life are explored, with the aim of challenging those within the artificial life research community to rethink and perhaps expand their own views about the term and its meaningful application. The focus is on the musical works of Steve Reich and the paintings of Wassily Kandinsky. The role of the observer in determining when it is appropriate to label a thing as living is also discussed.