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Most recently, I directed Life After BOB, a 50min real-time anime built in the Unity game engine. I am the author of Emissary's Guide To Worlding, a book exploring the psychology and techniques of creating living autonomous worlds.
Ian Cheng (born 1984) is an American contemporary artist known for his "virtual ecosystem" live-simulated digital artworks. His artworks explore the capacity of living agents to deal with change, and are "less about the wonders of new technologies than about the potential for these tools to realize ways of relating to a chaotic ...
Ian Cheng. Emissaries. Emissary in the Squat of Gods. Emissary Forks At Perfection. Emissary Sunsets The Self. 2015-2017. Synopsis. Emissaries is a trilogy of simulations about cognitive evolution, past and future, and the ecological conditions that shape it.
BOB (Bag of Beliefs) is the first in a new series of artificial lifeforms, who takes the form of a chimeric branching serpent. BOB advances Cheng’s use of simulation to focus on an individual agent's capacity to deal with surprise: the subjective difference between expectations and perception.
Sep 9, 2022 · Life After BOB is a planned eight-part anime miniseries by Ian Cheng, wherein humans and AI merge, with turbulent consequences. The exhibition advances the American artist's practice as, for the first time, Cheng situates his work with computer-simulated animation in a physical installation.
Oct 20, 2021 · Artist Ian Cheng, whose work is rooted in live simulations, has been pondering this relationship in his practice since 2012. His latest endeavor is a series of animated films called Life After...
Dec 19, 2021 · Ian Cheng’s Life After BOB is an episodic anime series built in the Unity game engine and presented live in real time, imagining a future world in which our minds are co-inhabited by AI entities.
Jun 30, 2021 · Ian Cheng—who studied cognitive science and art practice—utilizes a range of artificial intelligence (AI) models to mimic humans’ complex brains and enable unpredictable encounters between a character with a narrative goal and an erratic environment.
In the fluid, restless art of Ian Cheng, characters seek new identities and new surroundings, but whether they achieve them, and whether they should, cannot be foreseen.
Sep 28, 2022 · Artist Ian Cheng explores the technological and aesthetic potential of AI. In Berlin’s cavernous Halle am Berghain, New York-based artist Ian Cheng plunges viewers into an immersive world of AI and existential anime in ‘Life After BOB’. Sign up to our newsletter.
