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Caldo Worldwide presents the artist Will Freudenheim
Caldo Worldwide
Caldo Worldwide is a curated online-gallery and publishing house dedicated to contemporary art, with a focus on speculative gaming, digital art and technologically engaged practices.
Will Freudenheim
Will Freudenheim is an artist, game designer and researcher based in New York. His work focuses on creating experimental games and virtual environments that bring together human, artificial, and biological participants. His projects cultivate shared digital worlds as experimental spaces for play, collaboration, and knowledge production.
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Biotopy
Biotopy is a biotic game and interactive installation that speculates a more playful and collective mode of scientific discovery. Connecting bioreactors to game engines, it synthesizes scientific methods with gameplay mechanics. Players are citizen scientists, growing and interacting with microbial cultures to take care of a virtual creature on their computer. Biotopy is a playful interface meditating between the biotic and the digital, generating a novel space for both play and discovery.
Biotopy provokes questions of how biotic agents will live with virtual universes, how scientific discoveries could be facilitated through collective play, and how we might practice a more expansive scientific self.
〷◠‿◠〷 With kind support from the Anita Keijzer Foundation.
