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The 'Artefact' Project takes as its starting point the fluidity of the artefact and the attempts that have been made to fix meaning through classification and labelling. A 'multimedia' database of objects from the V&A collection will be made, incorporating 3 dimensional information, images, and text taken from information panels, this database can be added to over the duration of the show. This database will be the core of the online engine for the 'Artefact' project. This engine then generates new 3D objects through a process that converges elements from the database within an On-Line multi-user VR environment. For the duration of the show the 'Artefact' project will evolve through a generative breeding of the 'genetic' information contained in the database.Deprived of being able to touch and handle the evolving virtual/impossible 'Artefact' in the real world/museum, individuals would be able to virtually 'touch' and manipulate the 'Artefact' within the On-Line multi-user environment on the Internet. Through this process of manipulation the 'Artefact' would evolve and take on further significance as it is reformed and re-classified through user input. This user input could be collaborative through individuals working together simultaneously manipulating and redefining, or sequential allowing a new form to emerge over a longer period of time. New narratives will evolve around the virtual 'Artefact', new functions will be decided, more virtual 'Artefacts' may be grouped and linked through a consensual process of interpretation. The ambition is to enable a generative process to evolve through the re-interpretation of the objects, where meaning attributed to an 'Artefact' allows new 'Artefacts' to be formed through associative links.
The interpretation panel draws on thee sources for its information:
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