Developing Evolutionary Adaptative Systems to Negotiate the Mind-Body-Environment Relations

This project is part of a larger research project1 the aim of which is to create an interactive video art installation between spectator and computer, and an artwork which lies between art and science. The interface between them is driven by an open-ended “Artificial Intelligence” computational system that evolves in response to the autonomic reactions of arousal of a subject, rather than the consciously controlled processes which characterize most interactive art. This project merges interests in art, neuroscience and computer science and is born from a collabaration between these fields. This paper presents the achieved work to create an intelligent system able to provide concrete results highlighting the the mind-bodyenvironment relations.