Alexander Mordvintsev
CHAPTER III — ORGANISM
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Kate Vass: Many people first encountered your work through DeepDream, but your recent practice has shifted toward Artificial Life, and self-organising systems. What drew you from interpreting neural networks to exploring how life itself might emerge from computation?
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KV: Artificial Substrate presents life-like behaviour emerging from simple local interactions rather than explicit design. What fascinates you most about systems that organise themselves, and what do they reveal about the nature of life?
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KV: EMERGENCE begins with Conway's Game of Life and follows a trajectory from simple rules to learning systems. How do you see the relationship between Conway's cellular automata and today's learning-based artificial life systems?
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KV: The exhibition asks whether emergence itself can become conscious. From your perspective, what distinguishes a complex adaptive system from something we might one day recognise as genuinely alive or even conscious?
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KV: Throughout history, artists have imagined new forms of life long before science could explain them. As someone working between research and artistic practice, what role do you think artists play in shaping our understanding of artificial life?
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