[ISEA95] Panel: Louis Bec — De I’animat a I’infiltrat

Panel Statement

Panel: Artificial Life

It is now possible, using all the artefacts of artifical life, to construct a typology which takes into account a certain form of evolution. This evolution is part of a biomimetic by the construction of Animats. In this phase, the objective was to further general biological knowledge by constructing models which simulate living behaviour. In a second phase, the orientation and parameters that determine this evolution were enlarged and refined by the transfer of biological cognition to constructed technological devices. A new class of artefacts appeared, the Adaptats, conceived from Larmarkian or Darwinian presuppositions. This binomial Animat/Adaptat is symptomatic of a line of inquiry which continues to try to employ a relatively classic approach to study life as it is.

  • Louis Bec (France) was an inspector in artistic creation responsible for New Technologies with the French Ministry of Culture. The recent work of this zoosystemist surreptitiously questions the relations between artistic, scientific and technological domains.