Artists Daniel Sauter and Mark Hereld worked together to create a digital artwork based on the ideas produced from the 2008 Chicago Humanities Festival. This innovative, real-time art installation explores how complex systems and patterns arise out of simple interactions.
The Emergence Project is a contemporary art installation that utilizes computer-generated animation to chart how complex patterns arise out of a multiplicity of interactions, a phenomenon known as “emergence”. The Emergence Project is a contemporary art installation that utilizes computer-generated animation to chart how complex patterns arise out of a multiplicity of interactions, a phenomenon known as “emergence”. The exhibition focused on the actual discourse emanating from several Hyde Park area venues during the Chicago Humanities Festival’s day of programs on October 11, 2008. The contents of the presentations, performances, and panel discussions are captured, analyzed, and processed into a multidimensional image that evolves from minute to minute. The piece uses programmable software to identify specific words, phrases, or parts of sentences representing “big ideas,” and project them in real-time on the Hyde Park Art Center’s digital facade as erratically morphing designs.
