@misc{HeinickerLikavcanLin2019,
  author    = {Heinicker, Paul and Likavcan, Lukas and Lin, Qiao},
  title     = {alt'ai: designing machine-to-machine interfaces for automated landscapes},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address   = {New York},
  isbn      = {978-1-4503-6311-2},
  doi       = {10.1145/3306211.3320146},
  pages     = {6},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {alt'ai is an agent-based simulation inspired by aesthetics, culture and environmental conditions of the Altai mountain region on the borders between Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Mongolia. It is set into a scenario of a remote automated landscape populated by sentient machines, where biological species, machines and environments autonomously interact to produce unforeseeable visual outputs. It poses a question of designing future machine-to-machine authentication protocols that are based on the use of images encoding agent behavior. Also, the simulation provides rich visual perspective on this challenge. The project pleads for a heavily aestheticized approach to design practice and highlights the importance of productively inefficient and information redundant systems.},
  language  = {en}
}