Eclipse is a work in progress by Australian New Media Artist (Wayfarer, Bystander) Kate Richards. Eclipse is a fictional galaxy created within a games engine. The work synthesises astronomical data, scientific research, cosmology and allegorical discourses within a games engine to create a galaxy navigated with a nintendo wii remote and explored with an augmented reality ‘heads up’ display.
According to the description of the artists web page (http://katerichards.net/art/eclipse/) the work explores the universe as a generative system informed by a ‘creative intelligence, ordering principles, patterns, significance and aesthetics’.
The work explores questions regarding our aesthetic relation to the universe and the recurrent generativity it describes between astronomical and scientific visualisation and schematisation, cosmology and folk sciences.
The work is also notable for the way Richards is live documenting the process of the works development on an open wiki. If the work explores the universe as both ‘process and object’ then the work is also a recursive function and modulation of that systemic generativity. (http://darkenergy.wikispaces.com/)