A Glance to Primordial Chaos of UnderSea

The work generates continuously changing images depicting a chaotic undersea scene. The work uses an evolutionary algorithm that mutates and cross-over the about 100 different images to create new images. The original images that the algorithm starts to transform are undersea images that the author has taken  while scuba diving in Philliphine and other areas. The work gives the audience an opportunity to take a glace to primordial chaos of undersea. As the algorithm goes on, the images would  become more amorphous and chaotic. The work shows how the computing power of the computing machine can be exploited to create intriguing and fantastic images.


정문열 / Moon R. Jung

Moon R. Jung is a computer scientist becoming a media artist. He is interested in artworks generated from evolutionary algorithms, especially bio-mimetic virtual creatures whose shapes are built from elementary building blocks and whose behaviors are controlled by neural networks.  He is also interested in transforming these virtual creatures into physical robots with electrical circuits. The ultimate goal of his artistic project would be  to create robots that can pass the “Turing Test” of being a new species with “free will”. These robots may be made out of  metal material or more soft material.

http://medialab.sogang.ac.kr