"Emergence" is the last work of Rebecca Allen, a pioneering artist in the field of computer art. Her works are part of the permanent collections at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and the Whitney Museum in New York.
"Emergence" is a virtual environment which makes use of the figure of "avatars" to generate particularly beautiful interactive worlds.
ΓÇ£The Bush Soul (#3) is the third piece in a series of interactive artworks that explore the role of human presence in a world of artificial life.
In West Africa there is a belief that a person has more than one soul and that there is a type of soul, called the ΓÇ£bush soulΓÇ¥, that dwells within a wild animal
of the bush.
In this work a personΓÇÖs ΓÇ£soulΓÇ¥, represented as a sphere of pulsing energy, enters
a virtual world (a virtual bush) that is alive and responsive. The worldΓÇÖs inhabitants are brought to life through programs that define their behaviors and desires. A character can be endowed with "feelings" towards any object in the world. These feelings drive a characterΓÇÖs movements and affect its reactionsΓÇ¥.
