Marc Downie: Music Creatures

Artist(s):

• Marc Downie

Title:

Music Creatures

Exhibition:

• SIGGRAPH 2001: n-space

Creation Year:

2000

Medium:

Interactive Installation

Size:

10 feet x 8 feet

Category:

• Installation
• Interactive & Monitor-Based

Keywords:

• artificial intelligence
• computer graphics
• music
• virtual environment

Artist Statement:

This interactive installation consists of musical creatures – autonomous, virtually embodied characters living within a sonic environment. The movement of their graphical bodies produces music and reflects their understanding of the sounds that they hear. In this installation, computer animation and music are synthesized through the creatures’ animal-inspired artificial intelligences.

Affiliation Where Artwork Was Created:

The Media Lab, MIT

Other Information:

A music creature dancing to the sound that it hears.