Code As Nature

Multi digital software explorations, network
communications, and immersive environments for
interactive media.

Code as Nature is a studio workshop that
introduces a variety of contemporary artworks,
computational software, networking strategies, and
artificial environments used in integrated media.
Artists use algorithms and simulations to explore
and invent new approaches in the field of
generativity, interactivity, transcoding and
transmediality, connectivity, corporeality and
virtuality. The learning process is a study and
critique between simulations and the natural
world. In this course, participants might employ
artificial intelligence (AI), machine deep
learning, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality
(VR), extended reality (XR) technologies, using
OpenAI Gym, Unreal Engine, Google Colab, RunwayML,
Visual Studio Code, et al. to create artworks.
According to Thomas Hauer's 2017 paper
"technological determinism and new media", our
regular use of technologies may influence the
users and their surroundings, and the converse is
also true. Artificial neural networks were
invented, inspired by human cognition, and we can
now observe machine intelligence and their vision
though images, texts, sound, videos, 3D
environments, and more.