Extended phenotype:
The premise that a species’ artefacts and environmental effects
are an expression of underlying genetic systems
according to which we might imagine the city to be a biological
process, an emergent phenomenon.
This piece, my degree show for an MA in Computational Art at Goldsmiths, combines procedural growth algorithms in Houdini with animation in Stable Diffusion to explore the idea of organic cities; cities which flow and evolve like cells, plants, or mycelial networks.
The piece was projected in Goldsmith’s G05 immersive video room, on a canvas of 5 projectors across 3 walls, and utilises this space to create a sense of being in and among the shifting blocks of a fluid, impermanent city.
Bad House Film 