Media Beat: uncharted pages from a voyage of the beagle

Uncharted pages from a voyage of the beagle is a mixed-reality installation created for a new media symposium with the theme of ecologies of self-replicating systems. The work uses both the virtual domain of Second Life and a computer-mediated interactive installation to create a hybrid space. At the center of this work is an investigation into self-replicating and self-reproducing objects and systems. The process of creating this work was directed by my practice as an artist, where metaphor and poetic license enable me to investigate ways of looking at associations between philosophical and poetic concerns relating to memory, narrative, self, and the biological and physical sciences, using - as is so often the case in my own practice - the contrivance of narrative to do so.