Pond Life is an ongoing series of interactive audiovisual installations involving simulated life forms projected into a water tank.

The installation is centered around a large water tank in the center of a darkened room. A projector mounted above displays a simulation of evolving micro-organisms living in a simulated fluid, consuming and producing colored nutrient which is advected by the fluid. As these simple creatures grow, feed, reproduce, mutate, combine, and die, they create an ever-changing soundscape built of sine waves, the simplest sonic elements.

Submerged hydrophones and an optional video camera mounted above allow viewers to interact with the simulation by perturbing the virtual fluid as they perturb the real one.