The scale changes. The question remains.
01
State
What does a system carry forward from what came before?
02
Interaction
How does behavior change when a system meets an environment, or another actor?
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Adaptation
How does experience change what a system does next?
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Persistence
How does coherent behavior survive while the system itself keeps changing?
Now
A simulated cell that feeds, divides, and responds, trained the way our installations and our agents were trained, and a platform that will be its infrastructure, open to the people who want to build on it.
Why the shift
Then · Human scale
Memory, identity and collective presence.
Our early works placed people inside evolving artificial worlds. A memory shared, an image offered, or a gesture made changed what happened next. With thousands of visitors, these works are where imitation and reinforcement were first proven at scale.
Now · Cellular scale
State, response and change in living systems.
The questions remain, but the scale changes. At the cellular level, persistence and adaptation are not metaphors for life. They are part of life itself. A simulated cell lets us ask them directly: what it carries forward, how it responds, and what it becomes.
Publications
ECCV 2026 · Xiaorui Chen, Hanzhong Guo, Nizhe Cai, Jieliang Luo
ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 · Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech. 9(3) · Weidi Zhang, Lijiaozi Cheng, Yi Wang, Jieliang Luo
IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP) 2025 · Weidi Zhang, Lijiaozi Cheng, Paul Taro Schmidt, Jieliang Luo
ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 · Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech. 7(4) · Weidi Zhang, Lijiaozi Cheng, Jieliang Luo
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