> [!meta] > | Created | [[2025]] | > |---------|----------| > | Location | [VŠVU/AFAD](https://vsvu.sk) / [MediaLab*](https://memory.medialab.sk/) | > | Medium | [[Electronic]] [[Interactive]] [[Installation]] [[AI]] [[Object]] [[Visual]] | --- The project focuses on the evolution of autonomous machines and their ability to overcome the limits of pre-programmed behaviour through adaptive mechanisms. The research explores how algorithm-driven machines can faithfully accomplish their goals while discovering new and unpredictable ways to achieve them. Applying the principles of evolutionary algorithms and feedback, entities emerge whose behaviour continuously evolves through interaction with the environment and individual experience. An interactive installation forms an ecosystem in which these electronic organisms learn to survive. Seeking energy sources, responding to environmental stimuli and interacting with each other, they balance on the thin line between artificial and biological systems. The project examines the transition from passive tools to active actors and aims to contribute to the debate on the current role of machines and their integration into our world. The installation creates a platform for the observation of emergent phenomena and the evolution of behaviour in artificial systems. --- *Projekt se zabývá vývojem autonomních strojů a jejich schopností překonávat hranice předprogramovaného chování prostřednictvím adaptivních mechanismů. Výzkum zkoumá, jak stroje řízené algoritmy mohou věrně plnit své cíle a současně objevovat nové a nepředvídatelné cesty k jejich dosažení. Využitím principů evolučních algoritmů a zpětné vazby vznikají entity, jejichž chování se neustále vyvíjí na základě interakce s prostředím a individuální zkušenosti.* *Interaktivní instalace tvoří ekosystém, ve kterém se tyto elektronické organismy učí přežít. Hledají zdroje energie, reagují na podněty z prostředí a vzájemně na sebe působí, přičemž balancují na tenké hranici mezi umělými a biologickými systémy. Projekt sleduje přechod pasivních nástrojů na aktivní aktéry a klade si za cíl přispět k diskusi o současné roli strojů a jejich začlenění do našeho světa. Instalace vytváří platformu pro pozorování emergentních jevů a vývoje chování v umělých systémech.* --- <div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1110370913?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" title="System: The Ascent of a New Kind"></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script> <div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1101674627?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" title="System (Project Evolution)"></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script> --- #### Research *Read about the theory:* [[Systém; Vzestup nového druhu]] | [[System; The Ascent of a New Kind]] [[System (Abstract)]] | [[System (Process)]] ![[graph-system.jpg]] - -- #### Machines outdoors ![[System_IMG_03.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_05.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_00.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_06.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_07.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_10.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_11.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_16.jpg]] > *^ Photos by [Rémi Rakeem Homan](https://remihoman.com/)* #### Installation at Dom Vanek ![[System_IMG_26.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_28.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_29.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_30.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_31.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_32.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_33.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_34.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_48.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_47.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_44.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_49.jpg]] #### Machine Form *Electronic organisms > Autonomous machines* <div style="padding:100% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1057750874?h=812d90f6be&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" title="System (Machine Evolution – January)"></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script> ![[walker01.gif]] ![[System_IMG_40.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_41.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_37.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_38.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_68.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_69.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_70.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_71.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_72.jpg]] #### Places it has seen ![[System_IMG_52.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_53.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_54.jpg]] ![[System_IMG_55.jpg]] <div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1069165157?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" title="System (Being Watched)"></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script> #### Embodiment *Based on my own performative experiments, the amount of "embodiment" of a person in a machine fundamentally changes the relationship to the given technology. In a situation where the performer controlled the robotic limbs through body movement and his gestures were immediately translated into the action of the machine, the initial alienation was surprisingly disrupted. The machine was no longer perceived as an unknown autonomous entity, but rather as a tool — an extension of the human. However, once the robot began to act without direct human input, the status immediately changed — the machine was once again perceived as a standalone, hardly predictable actor.* <div style="padding:75% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1101701037?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" title="System (Machine Embodiment)"></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script> ![[System_pres_15.jpg]] ![[System_pres_16.jpg]] --- #### Log - ##### Overview - [[System (Process)]] - [[System (Annotation)]] - [[System (Research Annotation)]] - [[System (Abstract)]] - [[Research Question]] - [[System (Midterm Presentation)]] - [[System (Process Presentation)]] - ##### Theory - [[Systém; Vzestup nového druhu]] - [[System; The Ascent of a New Kind]] - [[System (Teorie – Okruhy)]] - [[System (Literature)]] - [[Adaptivity in the Interactive Art (Theory)]] - [[System (Theory Structure)]] - [[Evolution of Adaptivity, Autonomy & Responsibility (Theory)]] - [[Vývoj adaptivity, Autonomie & Zodpovědnost (Teorie)]] - [[Emergent Phenomena, Adaptivity & Autonomy (Theory)]] - ##### Process / Research - [[Machine evolution – Januray – Video]] - [[AI Terms]] - [[Autonomous Agents discussion]] - [[System Prototype 01]] - [[System Simulation – 04]] - [[System Simulation – 03]] - [[System Axioms v1]] - [[System Simulation – Genetic Algorithm]] - [[System Simulation – 02]] - [[System Simulation – 01]] - [[Machine Embodiment]] - [[Egon Bondy]] - [[Machines have always been a part of our world, but we've kept it from them all along.]] - [[Dave Ackley]] - [[Living Computation & Postdeterministic Digital Design]] - [[Artificial Life]] - [[The talking heads experiment — Luc Steels]] - [[Norbert Weiner – Cybernetics]] - [[Perceptual symbol systems]] - [[Alignment faking in large language models]] - [[Uncanny Valley]] - [[Trolley Problem]] - [[AI Captcha]] - [[Self-Learning Rrobots]] - [[Robots (Research)]] - [[Kilobots]] - [[A-Volve — Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau]] - [[System (Keywords)]] - [[Manifesto of Machinism]] - [[Dark Forest]] - [[Stelarc HYPER-HUMANS]] - [[Data View]] - [[The Chinise Room Argument]] - [[Turing test]] --- #### ![[Other Projects]]