System


The project focuses on the evolution of autonomous machines and their ability to overcome the limits of pre-programmed behaviour through adaptive mechanisms. The research explores how algorithm-driven machines can faithfully accomplish their goals while discovering new and unpredictable ways to achieve them. Applying the principles of evolutionary algorithms and feedback, entities emerge whose behaviour continuously evolves through interaction with the environment and individual experience.

An interactive installation forms an ecosystem in which these electronic organisms learn to survive. Seeking energy sources, responding to environmental stimuli and interacting with each other, they balance on the thin line between artificial and biological systems. The project examines the transition from passive tools to active actors and aims to contribute to the debate on the current role of machines and their integration into our world. The installation creates a platform for the observation of emergent phenomena and the evolution of behaviour in artificial systems.


Projekt se zabývá vývojem autonomních strojů a jejich schopností překonávat hranice předprogramovaného chování prostřednictvím adaptivních mechanismů. Výzkum zkoumá, jak stroje řízené algoritmy mohou věrně plnit své cíle a současně objevovat nové a nepředvídatelné cesty k jejich dosažení. Využitím principů evolučních algoritmů a zpětné vazby vznikají entity, jejichž chování se neustále vyvíjí na základě interakce s prostředím a individuální zkušenosti.

Interaktivní instalace tvoří ekosystém, ve kterém se tyto elektronické organismy učí přežít. Hledají zdroje energie, reagují na podněty z prostředí a vzájemně na sebe působí, přičemž balancují na tenké hranici mezi umělými a biologickými systémy. Projekt sleduje přechod pasivních nástrojů na aktivní aktéry a klade si za cíl přispět k diskusi o současné roli strojů a jejich začlenění do našeho světa. Instalace vytváří platformu pro pozorování emergentních jevů a vývoje chování v umělých systémech.



Research

Read about the theory: Systém; Vzestup nového druhu | System; The Ascent of a New Kind System (Abstract)

System theoretical research graph

Machines outdoors

System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025

^ Photos by Rémi Rakeem Homan

Installation at Dom Vanek

System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025

Machine Form

Electronic organisms > Autonomous machines

System electronic organism prototype walking
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025

Places it has seen

System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System: The Ascent of a New Kind by Antonín Kindl, electronic organisms installation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025

Embodiment

Based on my own performative experiments, the amount of "embodiment" of a person in a machine fundamentally changes the relationship to the given technology. In a situation where the performer controlled the robotic limbs through body movement and his gestures were immediately translated into the action of the machine, the initial alienation was surprisingly disrupted. The machine was no longer perceived as an unknown autonomous entity, but rather as a tool — an extension of the human. However, once the robot began to act without direct human input, the status immediately changed — the machine was once again perceived as a standalone, hardly predictable actor.

System diploma presentation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025
System diploma presentation, VŠVU MediaLab 2025

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