Artificial Life: Creating and Evolving New Modes of Realism

Abstract

This paper explores art, Artificial Life and the creation of new modes of realism. A brief survey charting significant Artificial Life artworks using aesthetic selection contextualizes the current status of realism in Artificial Life. Drawing on ‘media ecology’ the paper examines the relationship between realism, codes of representation and what we see as real and ‘true to life’. These ideas are explored in the artwork "Laboratories of thought and experimentations for future forms of subjectivation". This exploration provides a foundation and lens through which to consider evolving alternative modes of realism in Artificial Life