1. The Life Project Fiona French, Faculty of Computing OpenLab Workshops: Psychological projection into technology SPACE Studios, Hackney DON’T SWITCH ME OFF!

2. Concept / Brief artists, designers, makers, musicians interactive ecosystem of machines machine husbandry

3. Inspiration Conway’s classic Game of Life Cellular automata show emergence and self-organisation Evidence in nature

4. Hardware and software - £2500 Sensors, actuators, batteries, materials etc. Jee-nodes – ATmega328p chip/processor with four ports and wireless OpenSource software Technical

5. Emotional AI FEED ME!

6. Proximity and mood

7. LIGHTS, MUSIC (no ACTION) Representation

8. Communicating feelings With each other… …and with sensors in environment

9. IR Serial Communication Photo Resistor receives infra-red To pin on Jeenode micro-controller To 10k pull-up resistor to power LED broadcasts infra-red To pin on Jeenode sending serial to LED GITHUB

10. Patterns Wireless to system - tracking data

11. The Conversation With people

12. You scan a QR code, hit a URL … update a database read by a Processing app in SPACE Studios that can broadcast short-range wireless data to the appropriate Creature to feed it… …and it links you to Creature’s twitter account where you can see it tweeting “thank you” … Feeding Time

13. Tweets Or you move creatures around...

14. Teamwork Concept art

15. Skins Recycle materials Community involvement Crafting Creatures

16. Prototypes Process, engagement with technology

17. Happy cave Antisocial forest Surprise rocks Where do we live?

18. Environment

19. Exhibition Showcase at SPACE 13-14 Oct 2011

20. EVA London 2012 Come and play with the prototypes at EVA London 2012 10-12 July, BCS Fiona French f.french@londonmet.ac.uk http://lifeproject.spacestudios.org.uk/ GITHUB repository