ArchaeaBot publication in ALIFE 2021

ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May was selected for publication in the proceedings of ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life, alongside a virtual oral presentation.

The ALIFE conferences are a long-running meeting point for the international artificial life research community, and the 2021 edition took the theme Robots: The century past and the century ahead. Framed against the centenary of Karel Capek’s introduction of the word robot, the conference provided a strong context for a project that already sits between robotics, speculative future life, and questions of how intelligence might persist beyond familiar human forms.

For May’s wider practice, the publication matters because it places ArchaeaBot not only in exhibition contexts but within an explicitly research-led discourse around artificial life. The paper brings the work’s artistic and conceptual questions into dialogue with scientific and technological communities, reinforcing how central collaboration and speculative thinking are to the project rather than treating them as separate from its public life.

Read the full paper via the DOI record.