A Darwinist, Avatologist, & Algorithmic Artist (Jeffrey Ventrella Interview)

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Interview with artist Jeffrey Ventrella: animated artificial life developer, virtual world builder, and programmer. We discuss fractals, artificial life, digitally constructed worlds, and more.
With a Master's degree from the MIT Media Lab, Jeffrey co-founded the virtual world company There.com and was a senior developer on Second Life. He wrote the book Virtual Body Language, about avatars and the future of nonverbal communication on the internet. Working at the intersection of art, science, and math, he is a passionate lifelong student of Darwinian evolution.
🚩 Links to Jeffrey 🚩
Website www.ventrella.com/
Virtual Body Language book www.amazon.com/Virtual-Body-L...
Vimeo vimeo.com/jeffreyventrella
RU-vid / jeffreyventrella
↓ Get hands on with Jeffrey's creations
www.ventrella.com/Clusters/
www.swimbots.com/genepool/
www.wiggleplanet.com/
🚾 Works Cited
For the love of biodiversity: New experiments with the Gene Pool
simulation achieve species co-existence (Luka Negoita & Jeffrey Ventrella 2020) www.swimbots.com/biodiversity...
GenePool: Exploring The Interaction Between Natural Selection and Sexual Selection www.ventrella.com/Alife/GeneP...
Not Jeffrey's but still cool
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes
from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03453.pdf
🎬 Chapters
0:00 Highlights & Jeffrey's Call to Adventure
4:57 His epiphany with Koch curves/fractals
9:20 His 1980s Super 8 films/Commodore 64 artwork
11:00 His earliest artwork & the Mandelbrot set
15:07 His start in artificial life
Trials of Transformation
10:53 San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Building Simulation Games (Rocket Science Games)
23:50 What early lessons did he learn in gaming?
27:20 His experience as senior developer on Second Life
31:45 His thoughts on Facebox's Metaverse
34:35 Avatars & his book Virtual Body Language
41:08 What is the fastest thing in the human body?
42:15 Camera location shortcomings over video calls
44:45 His augmented reality company Wiggle Planet
49:45 Sharktankification: Is there an overemphasis on entrepreneurship in our culture?
51:05 Does Silicon Valley exploit artists?
52:07 Magic flight
Integration of Worlds
53:13 Shedding expectations
55:25 Returning to old seeds, tending the garden
55:45 Constraints are important for creativity
57:40 What is he working on right now?
1:00:45 Clusters: A particle microworld with ambiguous entities
1:03:40 Emergence curriculum - plug my first video
1:07:18 Why is the Edge of Chaos underappreciated?
1:10:35 Possible rebrand for Carlos's channel
1:11:45 Artificial life legend Christopher Langton
1:13:04 Genepool: Witness evolution as proto-swimming robots compete for mates and food (biomorphs)
1:19:45 Swimbot love is a battlefield
1:21:35 Why do you use sine wave functions?
1:25:30 Nominative determinism
1:28:28 Eels dominating the artificial life simulation?
1:31:30 The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution -
1:32:05 Shameless plug for Carlos's "A.I.Plays Dead" video
1:35:45 Surprises in artificial life & the videogame Spore
1:37:03 Lessons from artificial life? Don't be boring or else...
1:39:44 Using Genepool in biology class curriculum
1:41:42 Exploring Number Theory with Divisor Patterns (Like 3Blue1Brown)
1:44:15 Biophilia presentation - Fractals on the Mind
1:48:00 Return to fractals
1:49:15 "I came to all of this through art..."
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@Carlos.Explains Год назад

0:00 Highlights & Jeffrey's Call to Adventure 4:57 His epiphany with Koch curves/fractals 9:20 His 1980s Super 8 films/Commodore 64 artwork 11:00 His earliest artwork & the Mandelbrot set 15:07 His start in artificial life Trials of Transformation 10:53 San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Building Simulation Games (Rocket Science Games) 23:50 What early lessons did he learn in gaming? 27:20 His experience as senior developer on Second Life 31:45 His thoughts on Facebox's Metaverse 34:35 Avatars & his book Virtual Body Language 41:08 What is the fastest thing in the human body? 42:15 Camera location shortcomings over video calls 44:45 His augmented reality company Wiggle Planet 49:45 Sharktankification: Is there an overemphasis on entrepreneurship in our culture? 51:05 Does Silicon Valley exploit artists? 52:07 Magic flight Integration of Worlds 53:13 Shedding expectations 55:25 Returning to old seeds, tending the garden 55:45 Constraints are important for creativity 57:40 What is he working on right now? 1:00:45 Clusters: A particle microworld with ambiguous entities 1:03:40 Emergence curriculum - plug my first video 1:07:18 Why is the Edge of Chaos underappreciated? 1:10:35 Possible rebrand for Carlos's channel 1:11:45 Artificial life legend Christopher Langton 1:13:04 Genepool: Witness evolution as proto-swimming robots compete for mates and food (biomorphs) 1:19:45 Swimbot love is a battlefield 1:21:35 Why do you use sine wave functions? 1:25:30 Nominative determinism 1:28:28 Eels dominating the artificial life simulation? 1:31:30 The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution - 1:32:05 Shameless plug for Carlos's "A.I.Plays Dead" video 1:35:45 Surprises in artificial life & the videogame Spore 1:37:03 Lessons from artificial life? Don't be boring or else... 1:39:44 Using Genepool in biology class curriculum 1:41:42 Exploring Number Theory with Divisor Patterns (Like 3Blue1Brown) 1:44:15 Biophilia presentation - Fractals on the Mind 1:48:00 Return to fractals 1:49:15 "I came to all of this through art..."

@givemorephilosophy Год назад

Perception is a feature of the human being and aligning the same with Existential Reality is fullfilling and results in continued happiness. This is the normal default state we always return to from where ever we go to.

@givemorephilosophy Год назад

The truth is such a nice name. You are unraveling the truth and I am sure your channel will make it easy to comprehend for everyone. I can answer any question that you have unsolved.I state that in all humility with full responsibility :)

@stridedeck Год назад

Self-replicating depends on becoming independent from environment. Is the sine wave the simplest wave? If so, then that is the starting point for emergence and will be the artificial life simulation that will eventually encompasses physics. Will not "hack" in rules, but the rules will develop out of itself. The sine wave then becomes independent from the environment. Of course, this will be before LUCA (last universal common ancestry). Also, will be the beginning of fractals!