The symposium Emoção Art.ficial 4.0 – Emergência! (Art.ficial Emotion 4.0 – Emergence) promotes a discussion of four topics which, in certain circumstances, evince the phenomenon of emergence. Watch the debate`s videos
Various systems ranging from growing children to sophisticated robots experience the world, and, after a series of trials and errors, acquire the necessary independence to remodel themselves, giving rise to new behaviors and functions. This reveals a type of epistemological autonomy, that is, the system’s creative capacity to learn on its own and adjust itself for a better fit with the external environment.
Also watch the lectures Emergence and Cybernetics, Emergence and Aesthetics, Emergence and Chaos.
Peter Cariani is a biologist with a Ph.D. in systems science from Binghamton University, University USA. His interests include a wide variety of scientific and philosophical questions, such as cybernetics, theoretic biology, autonomous systems and neurology. He is currently an instructor at Harvard Medical School and a professor of musical cognition at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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.
Also watch the lectures Emergence and Cybernetics, Emergence and Aesthetics and Emergence and Creativity.
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.
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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.
Also watch the lectures Emergence and Cybernetics, Emergence and Chaos and Emergence and Creativity.
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.
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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.
Also watch the lectures Emergence and Aesthetics, Emergence and Chaos and Emergence and Creativity.
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.
