IKI-IKI Phone

(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau

IKI-IKI Phone , ongoing
Co-workers & Funding
Documents
  • IKI-IKI Phone Poster
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Description
IKI-IKI Phone is a multi-user, networked Artificial Life (=
Alife) art game for the I-mode mobile phones. In this sys-
tem, subscribed users can create Artificial Life creatures (=
IKI-IKI pets), interact with these pets, feed them, take care of
them, and evolve them. Networked users can also share their
pets with other mobile phones users, trade them, watch them
compete against each other, become friends with each other,
create offspring and develop an IKI-IKI pet society. Users
can also start communicating with each other through their
shared pets.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • multi-user
    • networked
  • genres
    • digital communities (social network)
    • game art
    • installations
      • interactive installations
  • subjects
    • Nature and Environment
      • animals
    • Technology and Innovation
      • artificial life
Technology & Material
Hardware
Any NTT DoCoMo mobile phones series (Japan, 1999 -)
Interface
Any NTT DoCoMo mobile phones series (Japan, 1999 -)
Software
1) Server side daemon with the IKI-IKI software
2) IKI-IKI Phone app written in C-HTML with NTT DoCoMo iMode mobile Internet api
Exhibitions & Events
Bibliography