Garden of Aether is a real-time simulation in which non-playable characters autonomously interact with the digital environment. Each brief generation of the characters builds a new sculpture in a sonic and visual landscape. The cameraman documents this whole process and no two instances are the same. Building the sculptures consumes computational resources and the computer gets hotter and hotter, while the digital environment becomes more polluted. Each generation ends with a run to the fire exit, just to be replaced by the same behaviors.