LIFEFORM

2026

LIFEFORM is a living sculpture: a hand-sculpted ceramic shrine housing a computer that perpetually evolves artificial life. Each creature is written by an AI running entirely inside the sculpture, cast as light onto a glazed screen, and judged by a camera. The life is the light itself, living in the glaze. The screen is not a terminal but an environment, held in an endless loop of locally sourced code, clay and circuits.

The screen showing an orange branching pattern beside its ceramic computer housing

Circuit boards and cables inside the open ceramic housing, with the screen behind

Front of the unlit screen, with branching ceramic forms growing up the face

Back of the ceramic screen and its arched, root-like legs

Overhead view of the glowing screen and the computer inside a four-legged ceramic shell

Everything is local, but I extracted the first two weeks of generations and creted and interactive visualizations of them here.