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Those Who is based on the diverse organisms represented in the collection of the State Darwin Museum in Moscow, which combines taxidermied specimens with paintings to show how a given organism interacted with its overall environment. Working with computational biologist / ecologist Matthew Lutz and game AI engineer Alessia Nigretti, Pohflepp trained a neural network on materials from the museum to create a self-generating 3D world that considers how evolution might take place in an increasingly technological future ecosystem. The environment of Those Who is aware of its own inhabitants, and can take part in a dynamic process of managing their development, pointing towards a possible future in which the boundaries between computer simulation and the natural world continue to blur.