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With the increasing availability of new technologies more and more artists begin to use scientific techniques and technologies in their work. Boredomresearch employs these new techniques not only for aesthetic purposes. They also use them as tools for exploring  biological life and autopoietic systems. Their works are like studies of ecological principles, networked communities and perceptual phenomena and they also create objects of captivating beauty. Boredomresearch's scientific objects exist beyond the borders of the laboratory in a specially created and highly aesthetic environment.

With the beginning of the millennium Boredomresearch creates artworks which move between the disciplines of art and scientific research. In their idiosyncratic style they mix the latest technologies with traditional aesthetics to a new - as strange as they are beautiful - expression. For their artwork Lost Calls of Cloud Mountain Whirligigs (2010) they used the Java-based processing software to create seemingly biological life forms. They modeled features such as motion, elasticity and gravity on nature which gave their objects a strangely realistic impact. They integrated these objects into a setting that reminds us of the paintings from the Japanese Nedo era. With Lost Calls of Cloud Mountain Whirligigs the artists have created their own world, full with mountains, cables, lights and small mysterious life forms, twittering and communicating with each other. The viewer can feel like an explorer discovering unknown life forms and landscapes. Only after looking at the movie for a while he or she realizes that the landscape in the background is changing: day turns into night in real time. This generative art project exemplifies the complexity and diversity of art works by Boredomresearch.
The works of Boredomresearch are as diverse as they are interdisciplinary: interactive sound applications, online projects, computer-based soundscapes are part of their work as well as generative objects and prints.

The artists' group consists of Vicky Isley (born 1974) and Paul Smith (born 1975), currently both teachers at the National Centre of Computer Animation at Bournemouth University. Their works have been shown both nationally and internationally at locations and events such as LAboral Gijon, Spain; Ystads konstmuseum, Sweden; Today Art Museum, Beijing; Britsh Council Collection; Holy Fire, iMal, Brussels; CAe Banff Centre of Arts, Alberta, Canada; Third Iteration, Melbourne; FILE, São Paulo.
For her art project Ornamental Bug Garden 001 they received honorary mentions from VIDA 7.0, A-Life Electronic Arts International Competition in Madrid in 2004 and from the Transmediale Berlin 2005.