____ Controls

____ Controls is an interactive simulation in which action and control circulate among multiple agents, accumulated traces, a shared environment, and a viewer who can intervene in that environment. The agents pursue goals related to survival, reproduction, and group formation. They choose actions under changing environmental conditions. Each action affects other agents and the environment, and those changes become part of the conditions for the next action. The viewer of the work is also part of this process. The viewer can intervene in the environment and influence the agents, but cannot fully control what happens next. The responses of the agents and the environment shape what the viewer notices and where the viewer chooses to intervene. The work asks what controls whom, and to what extent. The title, ____ Controls, leaves that subject unresolved.