So Kanno + Akihiro Kato + Takemi Watanuki
What sort of influence will the environment have on artificial life
Kazokutchi
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Families of artificial life are living freely in the hidden parts of the city.
“Kazokutchi” is a digital artificial life work that predicts the shape of this future.
Here, small robots move about on the top of a display platform made to look like a slope in Tokyo.
In fact, these robots are the “houses” of Kazokutchi. Inside these houses live families of artificial life. Each individual life is registered as an NFT, and when a child is born or a life ends, the traces of those lives are recorded.
The “Tokyo” stage exhibited here alternates between day and night in an a cycle of about ten minutes.
The environment surrounding the “house” robots that move slowly around this Tokyo also affects the ecology of the Kazokutchi living in those houses.
If you observe closely, you can see how the personalities, shapes, and movement patterns of the Kazokutchi change depending on the brightness, the time, the tilt, and other environmental factors.
It might be interesting to compare the influences of the urban environment on us normally through the perspective of artificial life.
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So Kanno + Akihiro Kato + Takemi Watanuki
So Kanno creates works using his own hand-made machines and robots. Akihiro Kato seeks out the new possibilities of society created by block chains. Takemi Watanuki works on pieces using a crowd simulation method. Together, these three creators form a team. Launched the Kazokutchi Project in 2022. Photo : Ioto Yamaguchi
