Nomen Nominandum

Evan Westwang was commisioned by a secondary school in Norway to create a project for their network of laptops. The result was Nomen Nominandum, a digital organism that resides on the school network:

If you call for it by voice or mouse movement it may come to your machine. If you play with it in the right way it will stay until it gets bored. When sleeping it curls up on its secluded plasma screen. It has real-time moods, sleeps in on Mondays and may decide to go away for a month in January. Its growth is very slow and as with living things you may never see it grow, but rather remember that it looked completely different some years ago."

There's a pretty cool quicktime movie showing the creature, which is rendered in 3d and looks a bit like a dragonfly.