Artists, scientists, and cultural commentators joined together to create a collective vision of sustainable habitat. Organized by Eidolon Culture, the Habitats conference and festival was a 4-day event organized to promote an exchange between art technology, and environment

Included in the event was the Electric Habitats installation, a collective and interactive audio/visual creation. Via the Habitats website, audience members and participating artists/presenters uploaded images, sounds and texts. These elements were composed and integrated into the Habitats environment during the show dates, implementing David Spangler's concept of "planetary village"; the emergence of villages that act local but through the means of technology relate globally. Everything that happens in the village affects the whole earth. The gift of technology is being able to move beyond the village and provide the opportunity to develop our human potential in a broader and more universal cultural context.

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Uploaded sounds are algorithmically manipulated into gestures similar to those found in a natural habitat. These sounds slowly and organically grow into a sonic ecosystem, individual "sonic species" reacting to each other and co-existing. Contact microphones distributed throughout the space capture the audience's motion, "scaring away" small sound species as bigger species approach. When the humans leave, slowly the sonic creatures creep back in. New York City's temperature data streamed from the internet affects the ecosystem; warmer temperatures mirrored by increases in sonic activity.