Alan Dorin is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Here he leads the Computational and Collective Intelligence group in the Department of Data Science and AI. His research covers Artificial Life and spans ecological and biological simulation, artificial chemistry and biologically-inspired electronic media art. Alan also studies the history of science, technology, art and philosophy, especially as these pertain to Artificial Life. He is (co) editor-in-chief of the journal, Artificial Life (MIT Press).