Mack Kevin ALife 2020 Gallery Presentation Anandala

Mack Kevin Anandala Anandala is a virtual, abstract art installation unconstrained by the limits of reality. It is designed to inspire awe, engage the imagination, and enhance wellbeing through shape, color, motion, sound, spatial presence, and perpetual novelty. Visitors explore a vast threedimensional mandala of evolving shapes and colors with the freedom of personal flight, like flying in a dream. Anandala combines the Sanskrit words, Ananda (bliss) and Mandala (a geometric figure representing the Universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism). Abstract, artificial life entities, called Blorts, inhabit Anandala. Each shapeshifting Blort is unique and exhibits complex emergent behavior. Blorts express themselves and interact with visitors and each other through their movement, changing color textures, and their own musical language. They are native to VR and lack many of our capabilities and limitations, but they are aware of themselves and others. Their purpose, form and function are aesthetic and benefic