Fugue: An Interactive Immersive Audiovisualisation and Artwork Using an Artificial Immune System

Fugue is the result of a collaboration between artist, musician and computer scientists. The result is an on-going project which provides a new way of communicating complex scientific ideas to any audience. Immersive virtual reality and sound provide an interactive audiovisual interface to the dynamics of a complex system – for this work, an artificial immune system. Participants are able to see and interact with immune cells flowing through a lymphatic vessel and understand how the complex dynamics of the whole are produced by local interactions of viruses, B cells, antibodies, dendritic cells and clotting platelets. 

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICARIS
• Authors: Peter J. Bentley, Gordana Novakovic, Anthony Ruto
• Keywords: Artificial Immune System, Complex Scientific Ideas, ICARIS 2005, Immersive Virtual Reality