Sublime Ecologies and Artistic Endeavors: Artificial Life and Interactivity in the Online Project "TechnoSphere"

Abstract

Art works generated and delivered using digital technology, particularly interactive pieces, challenge established notions of the identity of the artist, the curator and the gallery audience.By chronicling TechnoSphere, an interactive artwork accessed via the internet, I will address some of these issues.It is the development of a grammar of digital media that many practitioners, curators and theorists are engaged with now and some are focussing on the material characteristics of the medium.TechnoSphere is this type of Modernist project, but it also approaches the medium of the Internet from a more complex matrix of discourses in which issues around representations of landscape and artificial life remain important circuits.