Life Spacies II is an interactive artificial life environment where users can create artificial creatures by typing text messages. The constant movement, feeding, mating and reproduction activities of the creatures result in an intricate system that features complex interactions among creatures as well as users and creatures based on written text as a primary source of (genetic) information: art as a living process.

The graphical user interface consists of a web page where users can write text messages to create creatures or release text characters to feed the creatures. The specifically designed "text-to-form editor" software translates the text messages into three-dimensional artificial life forms (=creatures). The "text-to-form editor" that translates the written text of a text message into the genetic code of a creature. The text parameters and their combinations influence form, shape, colour, texture and the number of bodies and limbs.

Christa Sommerer (Austria) and Laurent Mignonneau (France) are internationally renowned media artists working in the field of interactive computer installation. The currently hold positions as Professors for Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz Austria at the IAMAS Internacional Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan. Descriptions of their works can be found at Christas homepage:

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