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

Interview with artist Jeffrey Ventrella: animated artificial life developer, virtual world builder, and programmer. We discuss fractals, artificial life, digitally constructed worlds, and more.

🚩 Links to Jeffrey 🚩

↓ Get hands on with Jeffrey's creations

🚾 Works Cited
For the love of biodiversity: New experiments with the Gene Pool

Not Jeffrey's but still cool
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes

🎬 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]

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]

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]

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]

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!