Emergent Structure
Following up on our conversation today discussing our process and some discomfort within this experiment with emergent structure (with most of us feeling more comfortable in the familiar modes of heirarchical structures and processes), I'd like to initiate this week's blog postings on the subject. After a very structured first quarter exploring systems of interaction we seek in this quarter to build a heterotopic space for making new work through a collaborative process that enables bottom-up emergence of new structures. Here are three links that make this subject very accessible. What do you think? -NAs always, wikipedia offers a great summary of the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
NPR's RadioLab did a fun program on emergence, you can listen at:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/season1_2005.html
I like this discussion of the elements of emergence, nicely broken apart and applied to multiple contexts:
http://ceh.kitoba.com/mechanism/emergence.html
posted by Norah Zuniga-Shaw @ 8:17 PM
1 Comments:
I'm not so sure about how emergence works as a pedagogical model - but I'm very interested in how it works as a model for an improvisational score.
The principles and features of emergence as listed in this essay provide the skeleton for a very interesting choreographic structure. I recognize it's not new... we're really just talking about generative art. But I'd be interested in looking at that as a potential performance element.
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