MICROFAUNA — an AI ecology on an analogue oscilloscope
MICROFAUNA is a neon-green swarm of code-born creatures: a small digital ecology that flocks, feeds, reproduces, and dies. The system is rendered live on an analogue oscilloscope in X-Y mode, where each creature appears as a moving point of light. A second screen logs the ecosystem’s events—births, deaths, and population changes—in real time.
What you’re looking at
Nothing here is pre-animated or looped. The ecology runs continuously. Individual creatures respond to their neighbors through flocking behaviour, while survival and reproduction are evaluated in discrete cycles. The result is a living rhythm: clustering, dispersing, swarming, collapsing, and recovering—sometimes stable, sometimes chaotic.
Working with an oscilloscope forces a different way of thinking about images: no pixels, no frames—only voltage, time, and persistence. You’re not watching a simulation on a screen; you’re watching an ecosystem as a signal.
Context: AI Ecologies at Artphy
MICROFAUNA was part of AI Ecologies, a group exhibition at Kunsthal Artphy (Wessinghuizen / Onstwedde). The exhibition brings together artists exploring AI as a way of thinking about life, systems, and environments—sometimes critically, sometimes poetically. Across the show, artificial systems blur into natural metaphors, raising questions about agency, control, and emergence.
Read more about the full exhibition here: AI Ecologies — Artphy
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