Three sculptures made of translucent polymer elaborated based on a genetic algorithm. When the distinct blocks thus constructed are brought together they recall Malevich’s architectural objects. The pedestal of each sculpture emits excerpts re-elaborated from “The White Doe,” a Scandinavian folklore song dating from remote times.
Nicolas Reeves is an architect with a degree from the University of Montreal, Canada. He is currently a professor in the Department of Design at the University of Quebec, in Montreal, and heads the NXI Gestatio, a laboratory for research and creation in computer science, architecture and design.
An installation composed of a book that makes delicate movements inside an aquarium while maintaining its stability by means of a dynamic balance between a magnetic field and the flow produced by a water pump. The artwork suggests cyclic principles that are counterpoised to immobility, while also evoking isolation and a constant sensation of emergence.
Ki-Bong Rhee has a degree in art from Seoul National University. He participated in the Gwangju Biennale, in 1997, and in Thermocline of Art, in Germany, in 2007.
A dynamic sculpture inspired in an experiment by Gordon Pask, in which the English scientist literally created an electrochemical computer in the 1950s. Electrodes in the form of wire rods immersed in an iron-sulfate solution receive electric charges. Black crystals grow at their ends like neurons, which attempt to connect with the crystals of other electrodes, and then dissolve.
Roman Kirschner studied philosophy and history of art at the University of Vienna. He is currently a researcher at the Academy of Media and Art of Cologne, in Germany, and cofounder of the artist’s collective Für.
An orchestra made up of “auditory cells” that behave like an organism. Their interaction results in a kind of microphone-speaker feedback which, filtered through special software, gives rise to auditory evolutions that allude to different moments in the history of music, ranging from Mozart to acid house.
Martin Lübcke is a consultant in the area of computer programming, and holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. He is also a member of the band Måfå.
Olle Cornéer is a DJ, a producer in the area of electronic music, and a member of projects such as Dibaba (represented by the labels Gigolo Records and Plong!) and Dada Life (Breastfed, Pickadoll). He also writes articles on music for the specialized press.
Interaction among elements is the essential force that gives rise to emergence. Fractals, dynamic systems, and the idea of complexity prove that agents that interact on the basis of simple rules can lead to complex and unforeseen results. Paradoxically, chaos reveals a kind of order, and theories suggest that meanings and coherences emerge from the confusion of an apparently disordered and diffuse world.
Santiago Ortiz is an artist, mathematician and researcher in the areas of art, science and fields of representation. He works with techniques of communication, creation and expression that combine narrative and literature as well as digital and architectural spaces.
The multiple agents of a system, expanding until their limits of interaction, generate new and surprising patterns. Throughout the process they evolve catalytically without their planner – the artist, in this case – having total control over the effects unleashed. Case studies and new poetic experiments prove the advent of the phenomenon of emergence in the aesthetic field.
Silvia Laurentiz is a multimedia artist. She holds a Ph.D. in communication and semiotics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP) and serves on the faculty of ECA/USP.
In nature or in computerized models, emergence is a phenomenon that arises from the cybernetic interaction among a sufficiently large number of real and/or virtual agents, whether in a physical or a virtual space. The circular causality among the elements can give rise to events in ecology, science and art.
Andy Webster is an artist and researcher at Falmouth College of Arts, in Cornwall, England. His works are influenced by North American artist Richard Serra and British scientist Gordon Pask.
Jon Bird is a researcher in the field of computational neuroscience and robotics at the University of Sussex, England. He collaborates in art projects that involve concepts such as evolutionary curatorship and generative films. He is a member of the organizational committee of Blip, a forum of art, science and technology that holds exhibitions in the United Kingdom.
