Life^2

Life^2 is an audiovisual performance in which objects continuously form relationships with one another within a system inspired by the microscopic world of microorganisms, creating an ecology of sound.
The highly advanced algorithms that constitute AI operate through complex mechanisms whose internal processes are difficult to fully comprehend from the outside, while compressing and optimizing vast amounts of context. Within this process, a small number of actors come to control these mechanisms, while elements deemed less efficient are excluded through processes of compression and optimization. As a result, an environment emerges in which acceleration and exclusion coexist.
Life^2 positions itself at the opposite end of this large-scale technological movement, focusing instead on microorganisms: microscopic beings that constitute their world through some of the simplest mechanisms of life.
To simulate an environment in which microorganisms perceive and interact with one another, Life^2 treats each entity as a point. In order to form relationships, these points continuously calculate their distances from one another through a Distance Matrix algorithm. For every entity to perceive every other entity, the amount of computation increases in proportion to the number of entities ^2, growing rapidly as their number increases. From the perspective of efficiency, this can be a computationally demanding algorithm.
In Life^2, however, this computational weight becomes a necessary condition for ensuring that no entity is excluded from the network of relationships. Through the algorithm, every entity is able to perceive and interact with others, producing moments of relation, and their movements in turn become the composition of sound. Through this process, Life^2 forms a world of life for sound and seeks to construct an attitude toward relationships grounded not in efficiency and compression, but in understanding and connection.