An examination of historical precedents for contemporary art practice using artificial life, in particular in the work of Paul Klee and Kasimir Malevich. Similarities are identified between artificial life and the philosophical tradition of organicism; specific examples from Klee and Malevich indicate that those artists were engaged in a form of creative organicist thought which imagined the re...

Solid freeform fabrication (SFF) allows 3D-printing of arbitrarily shaped structures, directly from computer-aided design (CAD) data. SFF has traditionally focused on printing passive mechanical parts. Advances in this technology and developments in materials science make it feasible to begin the development of a single, compact, robotic SFF system – including a small set of materials which can...

This paper discusses the problem of simulating the artificial life of realistic synthetic actors. It first presents the development of the general concept of autonomous actors reacting to their environment and taking decisions based on perception systems, memory and reasoning. An example of vision-based animation with an individualized walking model is detailed. Then, we discuss facial animatio...

Artificial neural networks are computational models of nervous systems. Natural organisms, however, do not possess only nervous systems but also genetic information stored in the nucleus of their cells (genotype). The nervous system is part of the phenotype which is derived from the genotype through a process called development. The information specified in the genotype determines aspects of th...

A promising area of research in nanoelectronics is the development of electrical systems that imitate the dynamics of life. To proceed toward this goal, I have proposed CMOS and single-electron devices that imitates the behavior of neural networks and a reaction-diffusion system, which is a chemical complex system producing dynamic, self-organizing phenomena in the natural world [1], [2]. Const...

Oohashi et al. proposed a biological hypothesis \programmed self-decomposition (PSD) model", in 1987, which assumes that a mechanism of decomposing itself and restoring substances and space to the environment is intrinsically programmed in every cell of terrestrial life. I have previously developed a simulator SIVA (Simulator for Individuals of Virtual Automata) and examined the e ects of the s...