Inspired by the notion of robots modeled after the myriad creatures in nature, artist and animal systematician Louis Bec has generated a new body of work--as he calls it, a zoology of change. Bec’s colorful, futuristic creatures were spawned by the artist along the border zone of technology, biology, imagination and art.
[Bec’s work] suggests that [artificial life forms] may one day be as honed for survival as lions, leopards, or even the indestructible bacteria. Bec says that his [creations] illustrate the variety of creatures scientists may [generate] through the powerful technique of technomorphogenesis, when technology and biology join hands.
Images and captions accompanying the article “MechAnimals” by Tom Dworetzky, appearing in the March 1991 issue of OMNI magazine. Additional details on Bec’s “technomorphs” are frustratingly difficult to locate online, but please also see
http://biomediale.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/?blang=eng&author=bec http://www.mediaartnet.org/artist/bec/biography/
