Los Angeles: Beall Center of Arts & Technology
Emergence: Art and Artificial Life
January 8 – May 7, 2010
Opening Reception: January 7, 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Family Day: April 17, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Boxed: March 11, 6:30 – 9:00 pm
The Exhibition features international artists exploring both the biological and computational manifestations of emergent behavior arising from dynamically changing, interactive sculptures. We as human beings are created and create through a process of emergence. Whether these emergent forms originate organically or are man-made, they can illustrate to us the rich variety of mutating systems with all their variety and ability to adapt to a changing world.
New York: Toward the Sentient City – Open Archive
September 17 – November 7, 2009
Sentient City Hub Exhibition
The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue
New York City
Curatorial Statement by Curator Mark Shepard
“When it is raining in Oxford Street the architecture is no more important than the rain, in fact the weather has probably more to do with the pulsation of the Living City at that given moment.” – Peter Cook
One could argue that this provocation by Peter Cook, published in 1963 in the catalogue for the Living City exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art, London, remains remarkably relevant for anyone interested in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary city. In place of natural weather systems, however, today we find the dataclouds of 21st century urban space increasingly shaping our experience of this city and the choices we make there. To what degree are these informatic weather systems becoming as important, if not more so, than the formal organization of space and material?
Since the late 1980s, computer scientists and engineers have been researching ways of embedding computational ‘intelligence’ into the built environment. Looking beyond the paradigm of personal computing, which placed the computer in the foreground of our attention, research in ubiquitous computing projected a world where computers would disappear into the background, displaced to the periphery of our awareness. Enabled by tiny, inexpensive microprocessors and low-power wireless sensor networks, information processing was to become ambient. No longer solely “virtual,” human interaction with and through computers in this near-future world would be more socially integrated and spatially contingent as everyday objects and spaces became linked through networked computing… (more)
Seoul: SOMA Gallery
Presented alongside work by Stellarc, and Hiroshi Matoba, Performative Ecologies was presented as part of ALICE 2009 (), an exhibition specifically intended for children to enjoy. The show had five sections, the first letter of each one corresponding to the acronym of “A.L.I.C.E.,” – “Artistic Studio,” “Lively Station,” “Intelligent Platform,” “Creative Engine,” and “Eco-Friendly Wonderland.”Performative Ecologies was selected to engage children in considering human relationships with virtual life and digital ecologies. Artists: TheGreenEyl and Denise Faust , Squidsoup, Ando Takahiro, Kichul Kim, Ruairi Glynn, Ji, Haru & Graham Wakefield were also part of this ecological wonderland.
Madrid: VIDA 11.0
Performative Ecologies was exhibited at VIDA 11.0 alongside some great installations from Philip Beesley & Rob Gorbet, Chico MacMurtie, Jed Berk, Chris Sugrue and Damian Stewart.
VIDA 11.0 Exhibition of Art and Artifical Life, Madrid from Ruairi Glynn on Vimeo.
With the kind help of my brother Ronan, we have made a small film of the exhibition which you can see above. Regine on wmmna has more detailed coverage of the exhibition.
Vienna: Pask Present
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Graz: Kunsthaus
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Edinburgh: Maverick Machines
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