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From Rhizome Artbase
The name Electric Sheep comes from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the Internet.
Electric Sheep is a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms.
The project is an attention vortex. It illustrates the process by which the longer and closer one studies something, the more detail and structure appears.