藝術家透過加入機械運動和電子聲響，創造更多層次的感官和資訊維度，回應零玩家遊戲（zero-player game）的概念，觀眾能夠自行編程並觀看演算後的複雜結果，初始的單元設定成為結合數位美學的樂譜，隨著時間推移產生無數的連續圖案和聲響軌跡，我們的宏觀世界成了一場可被微觀的生命遊戲。

Game of Life is an interactive installation where the participant’s touch on a wooden unit cell will initiate the generation of dynamic motion and electronic sounds, calculated using John Conway’s “Game of Life” mathematical model.

John Horton Conway devised an elegant mathematical model of cellular automation called “Game of Life” in March, 1970, where cells on a two dimensional plane simulate life by following a series of simple mathematical calculations, creating a world and community that repeats endlessly and expands infinitely. “In Conway’s Game of Life, the state of each cell depends on the current state of its surrounding cells. A live cell remains alive if two or three of its neighboring cells are alive. A dead cell will remain dead unless it is surrounded by exactly three live neighboring cells.”

With the addition of mechanical dynamism and electronic sound effects, the artist responds to the concept of this zero-player game by creating multiple dimensions of sensory and informational layers. Audience members can create a program, then observe the complex outcome of the resulting calculation. The initial setting of the unit transforms into a musical score of integrated digital aesthetics, producing countless continuous patterns and soundtracks with the passage of time. Our macrocosmic world becomes a microcosmic game of life.

魏廷宇

新媒體藝術工作者，畢業於國立臺北藝術大學新媒體藝術學系。作品多為電子裝置和音像演出。創作內容探索社會機制、人類行為和情感，手法多半藉由社會駭入，滲透日常生活並試圖從內部破壞，不僅涉及美學上的挪用，通常是功能或結果的置換。