From 10 nodes to elaborate structures: neural cellular automata art at EMERGENCE
zzznah · x · 2026-10-22
New work Dark Field Flora (2025) by Alexander Mordvintsev, a leading figure in neural cellular automata, is showing at EMERGENCE in Zurich's Kate Vass Galerie.
The piece tackles a core question: how does organized form emerge when no individual cell has a picture of the finished organism? Starting from just ten connected nodes, elaborate structures grow through local interactions and repeated division.
A representative work at the intersection of generative AI art and emergent life simulation.
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