Title
Turbulence: an interactive museum of unnatural history
Date
1995
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Produced in association with the Australian Film Commission. A menagerie of synthesised forms generated within the computer using a process of random selection from a video laserdisc containing over 30 minutes of computer generated animation. sequences accessed via a touch-screen interface. The interactive is a collection of poems, ideas, information and imagery relating to the philosophical impact of evolution on contemporary thought. The work took over three years to produce; the production process included authoring of a large body of special purpose software to evolve the artificial life forms contained on the disc.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Ian Potter University of Melbourne exhibition archive; UTAS catalogue; archive; http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/research.html (27/08/03)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/projects/turbulence.html
Exhibition Catalogue:
Tubulence: tan interactive museum of unnatural history. Parkville, Vic : University of Melbourne Museum of Art, [1995], c1994.
ISBN 0732512239

Event type/s
exhibition
Tags
Major Solo
Digital media
Installation