Synthetic Life

Part of Montalvo Art Center's Scratch Space series: Virtual Conversations on the Role of the Radical Imaginary

Join independent artistic research studio Interspecifics as they discuss their latest work, Codex Virtualis, an evolving collection of virtual hybrid bacterial-AI organisms designed to provide insights into how life might originate in extraterrestrial habitats. We’ll explore what makes the living different from the non-living, how can life can emerge from an ecosystem of algorithms, and whether life is itself an algorithm.

Codex Virtualis is the outcome of the SETI x AI art residency, a partnership between the SETI Institute’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program and ARS Electronica. Veronika Liebl, Director of European Cooperation Ars Electronica and Bettina Forget, Program Director of the SETI Institute’s AIR Program will join the conversation to discuss this partnership and their interest in the field of AI.

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The SETI Institute will be streaming this event live on our Facebook page at www.faceboook.com/setiinstitute