Biotope conditionSašo Sedlaček (SI)

Autonomous system, 2000

Biotope Condition is a constituent part of a more widely based project called Autonomous Systems (A.S.) which was commenced in 2000 and will be gradually realized during next few years. The project covers fields of techno-sculpture, virtual theatre, music, capital within art, database elaboration and artificial intelligence.

Rise of network technologies, genetic engineering and development of micro processors did not change the evolution rule - founded upon model of organic systems' behaviour - which states that stronger and more adaptive system survives. On contrary, it gained an entirely new scope. A.S. Biotope Condition represents a model of food chain, whose top is not a human but an ultimate predator - a computer-generated digital space. A similar nature-world example can be found in the ants-world who express their consciousness state through creating an ant-hill. In a case of humans, an individual doesn't any more express his belonging to a group through affiliating to ideology, state or tribe but instead to the institutions. The later express their state of consciousness through creating a network - that is - networking. Biotope Condition, as the first in series of Autonomous Systems, does not try to fit into an environment of institutional competition but rather establishes a model of autonomy within the isolated environment as an utopian account of food chain relations.

Sašo Sedlaček (SI)

Sašo Sedlaček was born 1974 in Ljubljana. After graduating at the High School for Design and Photography, he obtained a degree in sculpture from the Fine Arts Academy in Ljubljana and enrolled in postgraduate study of sculpture and new media. Since 2001, he has taken part in numerous group exhibitions internationally and has had several solo exhibitions mostly in Ljubljana where lives and works. In 2005, Sedlaček participated in a residency program run by Ministry of culture of Slovenia in Berlin (Germany) and currently he is at the IAMAS Institute (Institute of Advanced Media and Science) in Gifu, Japan for a 6 month residency program. In 2005, he received an award at the Zogocontest for the best recycling toy in Asolo, Italy for his project No Lego, and in 2006 he received the OHO award for young Slovenian artists for his Beggar project. The award includes a new residency program at the end of the year 2006 in New York City.