Observed arrival · 2026-09-15
Protobytes: A Natural History for Imagined Life
An artist-built world of computational organisms whose inherited traits, simulated histories, and changing forms become drawings, portraits, films, and material studies.
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Protobytes treats each computational organism as a traceable artistic subject rather than a disposable generated image. The homepage distinguishes retained life records from genome records, assigns identifiers such as b10b49b00408 to named specimens, and follows Chordozoa luminosa through portraits and color studies. Its broader apparatus includes a shared ecology, breeding and selection rules, a 2:03 natural-history film with English captions, and tools for making or contributing organisms.
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