EMERGENCE
Every complex system begins with a simple rule.
Current State
Organism emerges
CHAPTER III
Organism — Living Systems
From repeating patterns emerge organisms, systems that sustain themselves, adapt, transform and begin to exhibit the qualities we associate with life.
When does a pattern become alive?
Conversation I of III
Jared S. Tarbell
"Biological life has a kind of thirst for life."
Conversation II of III
Alexander Mordvintsev
"I think AIs will 'become' conscious once people start recognising them as such."
Next: Organism — III of III
20th August
EARLIER CHAPTERS
Chapter II — Pattern
Conversation I of I
David Young
"Computation becomes interesting when behaviour cannot be predicted from individual parts."
Chapter I — Cell
Conversation II of II
Jonathan McCabe
"A complicated state, undergoing transformation by the simplest of rules"
Chapter I — Cell
Conversation I of II
Casey REAS
“The artwork exists in the relationships among things”
18th August — Organism is born
EMERGENCE unfolds one chapter at the time.
Beginning on 28th July, a new chapter emerges every Tuesday, gradually revealing artists and conversations until the exhibition opens on 8th September 2026.
The exhibition emerges weekly until its public opening on 8 September.