title: 01101110
type: interactive audiovisual installation based on Cellular Automata
year: March 2019
author/composer: oneContinuousLab (Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos / Odysseas Klissouras)
funded/commissioned by Ljudmila Art and ScienceLaboratory (artistic residency)
first exhibition: Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory, Ljubljana, Slovenia, March 2019
01101110 is light-music installation echoing and celebrating the simplest mathematical model of computation. A series of light/shadow paintings depict instances of the evolution of Rule 110 one-dimensional cellular automaton (Rule 01101110 in binary) accompanied by a music layer based on the same process. The paintings are created by digitally fabricated perforated panels and white light LED beams; the panels diffract the light and project it on blanc canvases hanged on the wall of the exhibition space. Each painting offers it's one unique light and sonic space. The automaton Rule 110 is the simplest known Turing complete system and therefore it is capable of simulating any computer algorithm. This piece offers an immersive experience of this remarkable property and reflects on the duality of complexity/simplicity.
More info about the aesthetics and the technological aspects of the work can be found in the paper 01101110: An Audiovisual Installation Based on the Cellular Automaton Rule 110 in the Proceedings of Sound and Music Computing Conference SMC20
An audio example from the exhibition in Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory.
The following image was taken from the exhibition at the EASTN-DC festival in Copenhagen in May 2019.
The video below presents the customly designed and digitally fabricated projector.
The project was financially supported partly by the European Art-Science-Technology Network for Digital Creativity (EASTN-DC), a network co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.
