Evolutionary total artwork: Biology, media and space

The influence of biology in visual arts and architecture has been significant and profound throughout time. Within this notion of biological induction, artists have increasingly adopted the use of multiple interrelated art forms to express one space. Presently, electronic music, visual arts and some forms of architecture allow different types of relations, as itʼs possible to navigate through music or to touch the virtual. These forms of spatial art works persistently challenge artistic taxonomy. In spite of this, the use of different art practices to create a single work is not groundbreaking, as it can be traced back to the end of the definition of “Total Artwork” (Gesamtkunstwerk). What is distinctive in recent history is the creation of new spatial systems via digital and technological intercommunication across art forms. This common language is the base by which architecture and media arts dynamically connect spatial dimensions at a more fundamental structural level than was previously possible. Due to this connection, visual arts, music, and architecture go beyond the classical composition of the previously distinct, one might say, individualized artistic practices. In contemporary art and architecture, they shape a new species of spatial artwork, merging at a structural level a systematic information space to its form in a manner analogous, to some extent, to the biological process of morphogenesis. Parallel connection to the consistent evolution of science, music, visual arts and architecture potentiates spaces that encourage a symbiotic relationship with the human body and mind. Independent of any canon, body and mind we are constantly being induced by space, both physically and mentally. Therefore, it is inevitably relevant to examine ways humans can interact with space—in this particular case, with mediated spaces—in order to understand different expression modalities