Again, Turbulence delivers a fascinating story. The Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium is, at first glance, merely a pretty star chart. Upon closer inspection, this work by Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway not only reacts to a huge influx of publically traded companies, but does so in such a way that causes the stars to cluster into groups which have similarities. On top of that, the display is programmed to generate artificial life forms which feed off of the light of strong stock-representational "stars", which form communities, devour other lifeforms, and interact with the "universe" on the whole.
This is the first turbulence post I've seriously wanted to visit, unfortunately due to its location in Denmark, I doubt it will happen anytime soon. Regardless, the technological and artistic innovation in this work is amazing to me. To combine The Game of Life with a planetarium that's reactive to our own "corporate monsters" is a very relevant topic to this week, but is just flat-out awesome regardless.
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