CCMSAI 2026

Circulation in and for Artificial Life is an audiovisual work that investigates the emergence and persistence of identity within a computational environment that never reaches a stable state. Multiple artificial-life entities exist within an abstract ray-marched world whose visual parameters are continuously rewritten by scripts. Each frame is further transformed through a process of UV collapse driven by the electroacoustic sound composition. In particular, high-frequency cello material, especially during moments of increasing intensity toward the electroacoustic climax, activates a turbulence-based transformation that violently tears and displaces the UV coordinates of the rendered image. The artificial entities analyze the final rendered result of every frame, including the effects of UV collapse, and modify their scale, color, and shape through a genetic-algorithm-based process in an attempt to maintain visual identity. However, during the most intense moments of UV collapse, the distinction between artificial life and its surrounding environment becomes temporarily impossible to perceive. At this zenith of audiovisual instability, the organism and world visually lose their separability. The work therefore approaches identity not as a stable property but as an ongoing attempt at persistence under conditions in which the environment continuously transforms the very field through which identity becomes perceptible. Combining artificial life, evolutionary computation, ray-marched rendering, electroacoustic composition, and recursive image analysis, the project proposes simulation itself as an aesthetic process in which sound, rendering, environment, and identity circulate without a stable origin.