changed: - Electric Sheep is a cyborg mind composed of 30,000 computers and people mediated by a genetic algorithm. It's an open-source, distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms, each known as a "sheep". In our universe, evolution is based on survival of the fittest. In the sheep's abstract visual universe, fitness is determined by the audience. If a user sees a sheep they like, they may press the up arrow key to vote for it. Sheep that receive more votes live longer and are more likely to reproduce. Interested users can download additional software and become sheep designers. They manually edit genomes and post them to the server where they join the flock. Hence the artificial intelligence of the server's genetic algorithm collaborates and competes with a human design collective. All sheep genomes are distributed under a creative commons license. The whole-flock database and archives are web-browsable. For each sheep it displays the genome, a still frame, credit to the designer (if any), lines of descent (family trees), numbers of votes, times of conception, birth, and death, etc. Designers and sheep are ranked, so anyone can see where the top sheep come from, how they are made, and learn from them. *Dreams in High Fidelity* is a new manifestation of the sheep. Physically it consists of a small computer driving a large display. It plays triple-resolution sheep at a more stately motion than the screen-saver. This flock was selected, edited, and sequenced by the artist. The combination of high quality and refined content is striking. This flock is over 50GB of mpeg4 1280x720p content and would have taken over 100 years to render on a single computer. I believe the free flow of code is an increasingly important social and artistic force. The proliferation of powerful computers with high-bandwidth network connections forms the substrate of an expanding universe. The electric sheep and we their shepherds are colonizing this new frontier. I look forward to many more generations of sheep at ever higher resolutions, with more expressive genetic codes, in three dimensions, responding to music, performing feats not yet imagined. Software: - software used: gcc, apache, perl, curl, mpeg2 - software written: 30000 lines of code over 7 years about half by me and with substantial and essential contributions by a core team of about six engineers. general: http://electricsheep.org/tour technical: http://draves.org/evomusart05 fresh: http://draves.org/npar06 best: http://hifidreams.com