MetaLife: Art Interactive Installations

Introduction

What is Life? If a liquid metal droplet can hunt for game, play with companions, and even display personality traits such as shyness, curiosity, brightness and naughtiness, is it alive? MetaLife is a series of interactive installations, representing different "personalities" of liquid metal "mollusks". When interacting with the audience, the mollusks present personalities and hopefully provide the audience to wonder what life actually is. Click to See Video Demo

Design Outcome

Shyness

This creature is very sensitive and favors dark corners for its habitat. When feeling safe, this creature will stretch its neck out and roams around. But whenever it detects the approach of humans, it will get scared and quickly retreat back to its safe nest.

Curiousity

This creature is very curious about its environment. It seems to enjoy playing and looks for the companionship of other individuals. When someone approaches, it will show great interest and move to them directly.

Intelligence

This intelligent creature can understand and respond positively to a human's instruction.

Mischief

This naughty creature loves playing hide-and-seek. People have to poke their figures into the cave to find its location.

Team Members

Qiuyu Lu
X-Studio, Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University

Zhiyi Ma
Department of Automation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Liyuan Wang
X-Studio, Tsinghua University

Chenrui Xie
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

Meijia Jiang
Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University

Advisor

Haipeng Mi (http://haipengmi.com)