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Schema by 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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Schema
Schema is an interactive digital artwork featuring a forest creature whose behavior and emotions are collectively controlled by Twitch chat participants in real-time. Viewers manipulate the creature's arousal levels and focus orientation through chat commands, triggering complex emotional states ranging from curiosity and contentment to anxiety and aggression that directly influence the creature's AI-driven behaviors as it explores, seeks refuge, or confronts elements in its digital forest environment. The creature collects glowing "pearls" during the day and transforms them into algorithmic melodies at night, creating a dynamic feedback loop between audience interaction and automated artistic creation. Schema explores how collective digital participation can generate emergent, unpredictable behaviors and narratives, examining the complex effects that arise when many voices collaborate to shape a single evolving story within a virtual ecosystem.
〷◠‿◠〷 With kind support from the Anita Keijzer Foundation.
