Amorphic Landscape

The Amorphic Landscape is a large-scale robotic installation and performance which has been developed, performed and exhibited by MacMurtrie and Amorphic Robot Works (ARW) since 2000.

Central to the 20-meter-long Amorphic Landscape is an organic environment engineered to provide both a physical and narrative structure for more than 100 individual robots. This inflatable environment is both habitat and stage for its robotic performers. The Landscape is, itself, a robotic form capable of movement and transformation. This one-hour long immersive performance of The Landscape depicts the formation of the earth, the birth and rise of creatures and communication, the degradation of the environment, and the many intervening life cycles in which everything takes part.

The Amorphic Landscape has been adapted to run as an interactive exhibition by integrating computer vision technologies into the Landscape's hardware and software.