still living' by Antoine Schmitt is a silent and, at the same time, Dadaistic meditation on the forces that make the world go round. However, what we see in this piece (or rather, in the ten variations) of generative art is not a linear movement or development towards a future of ever continuing growth, but rather a system (an economy?) short-circuited with its own visual codes, displays and graphical surfaces. Pie charts, bars and curves representing the generic visual language of modern economy are  “animated by the same internal forces that they are supposed to describe.“
(Antoine Schmitt)
The title 'still living' is an obvious allusion to the art historical genre of the still life – depictions of Vanitas alluding to the passing of time in general and to the fugaciousness and transience of all human life. But in comparison to the allegorical elements of the still life – dead animals, fruit, skulls, vases, clocks and jewellery – the miserable and pathetic graphs bending in this or that direction are not awe-inspiring but rather convey a feeling of going in circles. Abandon all hope after crossing the threshold of this office, traveller!
Antoine Schmitt’s 'still living' is poking serious fun at generative art and real time visualisation and is, at the same time, an acidic commentary on the belief in (economic) progress and development. (transmediale.07 jury statement)