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Whitelaw, Mitchell Luke was born on May 14, 1972 in Sydney, Australia. Son of Stuart Robert and Christine Gillian Whitelaw.
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Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life (Paperback) - Common
(The first detailed examination of a-life art, where new m...)
The first detailed examination of a-life art, where new media artists adopt, and adapt, techniques from artificial life.
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Metacreations: Art and Artificial Life
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Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life
(Artificial life, or a-life, is an interdisciplinary scien...)
Artificial life, or a-life, is an interdisciplinary science focused on artificial systems that mimic the properties of living systems. In the 1990s, new media artists began appropriating and adapting the techniques of a-life science to create a-life art; Mitchell Whitelaw's Metacreation is the first detailed critical account of this new field of creative practice. A-life art responds to the increasing technologization of living matter by creating works that seem to mutate, evolve, and respond with a life of their own. Pursuing a-life's promise of emergence, these artists produce not only artworks, but generative and creative processes: here creation becomes metacreation. Whitelaw presents a-life art practice through four of its characteristic techniques and tendencies. "Breeders" use artificial evolution to generate images and forms, in the process altering the artist's creative agency. "Cybernatures" form complex, interactive systems, drawing the audience into artificial ecosystems. Other artists work in "Hardware," adapting Rodney Brooks's "bottom-up" robotics to create embodied autonomous agencies. The "Abstract Machines" of a-life art de-emphasize the biological analogy, using techniques such as cellular automata to investigate pattern, form and morphogenesis. In the book's concluding chapters, Whitelaw surveys the theoretical discourses around a-life art, before finally examining emergence, a concept central to a-life, and key, it is argued, to a-life art.
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Mitchell Luke Whitelaw
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Doctor of Philosophy, University of Technology Sydney, 2000.
Career
Associate lecturer University Wollongong, Australia, 1994—1995. Senior lecturer University Canberra, School Creative Communications, since 2001.
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Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life
(Artificial life, or a-life, is an interdisciplinary scien...)
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Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life (Paperback) - Common
(The first detailed examination of a-life art, where new m...)
- (Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life) Author: Mitchell Whitelaw published on (April, 2006)
- Metacreations: Art and Artificial Life
- Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life By Whitelaw, Mitchell ( Author ) Paperback 2006
- Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life by Whitelaw, Mitchell (2006) Paperback
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Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life
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Married Nicola Jayne Wennberg, February 20, 1999. Children: Thomas Mitchell, Scarlet Lucy.
