Description

What: Using conway's game of Life to write about my views on M. Heidegger's "The Thing". Conway's Game of life proposedly simulates cellular life, 'chaos', according to 4 simple rules. It is one of the pioneering applications of evolutionary algorithms.
How: As I write the simulation is static, and when I press play what I've written interacts with the rest of the environment, like Archimedes writing in the sand. The first try we more similar to the latter where I let my thoughts fly while playing with the game.
Why: I found the media object to be a so-called anti-heideggerian thing. The media object, in this case, simulates life and death according to what we perceive as life. By simulating life we objectify it to a greater degree: first, from the perspective of the object doing the simulating, and second, according to the form we have set for the simulation. Conway's Game of Life also ties into my study of evolutionary algorithms and metaphors of natural evolution in technology.

Video recordings

M. Heidegger, The Thing Game of Life