e-Merge
Emergent behaviour is an outcome of a complex system. A close relative of Chaos and Complexity, Emergence is a scientific
phenomenon describing dynamic systems that self-organise from the bottom up in unpredictable
ways. Think flocking birds, ant colonies, street fashions, performance. The e-Merge project was supported by European Commission's cultural programme Culture 2000 and commenced in 1999 in a residency at CAMAC France with Prof. Igor Aleksander of Imperial College.
e-Merge 2004 Institute of Contemporary Arts
e-Merge involved a science-arts team that included computer programmers and software designers who developed a new technological system enabling rule systems to be networked via interactive technologies - wireless headsets, floor sensors, computer screens - to the performers during the performance, and enabling the performers to feedback into the system as the work unfolded. By using digital means to orchestrate performers actions the project explored the interaction of technology in generating emergent performance.
Recent exploration of emergent ideas to create new dance resulted in FUZZY LOGIC performed March20-22 2007 at The Rocket, London Metropolitan University, London and was preceded by BIRDS BODIES (2005) which integrated the use of the software Isadora.
This research integrates with my production of touring works, particularly the recent HERD.
With long-term collaborator Daniel Biro (composer) the exploration of scientific ideas that generate dynamic
creative patterning as a source for new performance works started in 1996 with an improvisational duet Strange Attractors
