David Stout’s

Video artist and new media researcher David Stout’s proposed Archipelago utilizes interactive 3D animation to simulate a series of virtual ecosystems, each inhabited by an evolving population of artificial intelligences. The work will be exhibited in multiple locations around the world, with each site possessing a unique aesthetic and diverging population of organisms. A hybrid cinema experience, the work is part video art installation and part interactive game, placing viewer-participants in an expansive ecology in which they are equal, rather than dominant, to the evolving artificial organisms. Stout has toured extensively throughout Europe and the US, and has received the Sun Microsystems Award for Academic Excellence and a Harvestworks Interactive Technology residency.