Electronic Art: The Emergent City

"The Emergent City" by British artist Stanza

Prints available for purchase from Etsy. Society6. US$

Stanza represents the inter-connected nature of our modern world with a miniature city constructed of computer components and powered by the vibrations and sounds of London.   This exhibit collects data from sensors placed all over London.  The sensors gather a wide range of data about the city, including its transit systems, weather, and sounds.  The installation then responds to the data by projecting maps of that data onto the walls of the exhibit. 

According to Stanza, The Emergent City is an "Open social sculpture that informs the world and creates new meaningful artistic experiences. The artwork is also a highly technical project that gives vast amounts of information about the environment. By embedding the sensors like this we can re-engage with the fabric of space itself and enable new artistic metaphors within the environment."

"The Emergent City. From Complexity to The City of Bits." by Stanza

"The artwork captures the changes over time in the environment (city) and represents the changing life and complexity of space as an emergent artwork. The artwork explores new ways of thinking about life, emergence and interaction within public space.The project uses environmental monitoring technologies and security based technologies, to question audiences' experiences of real time events and create visualizations of life as it unfolds. The installation goes beyond simple single user interaction to monitor and survey in real time the whole city and entirely represent the complexities of the real time city as a shifting morphing complex system."

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