About this project

In 1999, Dave Everitt and Greg Turner) created a digital artwork driven by a heartbeat monitor, called cubeLife. Following their interests, the artwork is gradually evolving into a larger, more encompassing project.

The current version of the CubeLife artwork is based in a virtual world populated by magic cubes (one kind of magic matrix), each created by participants' input; either online or in the exhibition space via a fingertip heartbeat sensor. Each cube has a finite life and associated sound, and inhabits an artificial life environment where it can be made to flock with other cubes and follow various defined behaviours. Colours and other variations can either be chosen by an inbuilt colour harmony system, or pre-programmed for particular effects.

CubeLife 1 (image, top left) began in 1999, and was exhibited at bioMatrix in September of that year.

CubeLife 2 (image, top right) is an interactive, exhibitable installation and internet-resident artwork. Minus the web component, it was last exhibited in February 2007 at Q Arts Gallery, Derby in the UK.

CubeLife is developing in three ways, as:

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