✨ We’re excited to share that Simulacra Naturae – Entangled Biomes will be presented at the @acmsiggraph 2026 Art Gallery, Los Angeles Convention Center.
The work is a multisensory installation exploring how aesthetic experience emerges through the interaction of biological activity, generative algorithms, and embodied agents. Driven by brain organoid data, the project unfolds as a living ecosystem where neural dynamics, computation, and human interaction co-evolve across time and material scales.
Developed with brain organoid data from the Kosik Neurobiology Lab at UCSB. Produced by Metaesthetica (supported by @sbcast ) in collaboration with @mat_ucsb transLAB and supported by @expressivecomputationlab , MAT PhD students and alumni. @nefeliman@mertoka@viscousvoid@deejay_tekton@nulltools@stejaraiulia
We are grateful to be part of this collective effort and to share this work with the SIGGRAPH community.
See you all in LA this summer!
#SIGGRAPH2026 #MediaArts #BioArt #GenerativeArt #InteractiveArt UCSB MATUCSB Metaesthetica
made a digital drawing this morning, then sent it to the idraw! gotta modify the workstation a bit to include more clamps and tape to hold down the paper, but i’m excited nonetheless! bonus points if you guess which anime this is from :)
memoriae
a sculptural visualization of simulated agent behaviors across generations. i designed and coded the evolutionary algorithm in play here, and agent flocking behavior was inspired by the boids algorithm.
