Biota.org - Karl Sims Retrospective


Evolving Virtual Creatures	Panspermia

Genetic Images	Wild Evolvers of Galapagos

Links to Interviews, and other Reportage on Karl's Work

NEW: Tom Ray's June 2000 Paper Aesthetically Evolved Virtual Pets
inspired by Karl Sims' work on evolving virtual creatures.
This is a report on a running system from Tom called "Virtual Life"

A primary source is Karl's company homepage for Genetic Arts and his personal bio page with links to all of his works including: Karl's own pages on Galapagos and on the evolving virtual creatures and panspermia and primordial dance and liquid selves and particle dreams.

Galapagos as shown at ICC Intercomunication Center in Tokyo. Also see the ICC review of the Galapagos work.

Breeding Artificial Life, an excerpt about Karl's work from Digital Mosaics The Aesthetics of Cyberspace by Steven Holtzman

Tom Ray's page on Karl's original 1994 evolving virtual creatures

Virtual Creatures thread on the Principa Cybernetica mailing list archive.

Panspermia at ars electronica 1991.

The Digital Burgess Conference Pages where Karl attended and presented a keynote. Read the conference reviews, see the photo albums, and view the Discovery channel video featuring Karl's interview.

Steven Rooke's Evolutionary Art pages, inspired by Karl's genetic images.

Evolutionary 2D images review, including Sims, Rooke and Musgrave as featured on the Evolutionary Graphics Homepage.

Karl's Interactive Expression bio page.

Realvideo Interviews and MPEGs of Karl on the "blockie creatures"

The famous 1994 MPEG1 Movie (9.5MB)
Showing the walking, jumping, swimming creatures