while having to articulate & critically engage with nature-of-code, it is apparent to me that my practice has always been situated around the idea of 'emergence'.
put a few rules together in a ‘complex’ system, and see what comes out of it. through the rules, you understand the system better; or via the rules, you communicate the system better.
i think back to the opening line of my master’s statement:
When I think about the world, I imagine a system — many organisms perpetually interact with one-another, each governed by its own set of rules, collectively unpredictable & complex; with the occasional sprinkle of universal noise. My artistic practice is wholly devoted towards the pursuit of understanding and representing this semi-ordered nature of the world.
formed with the help of process compendium, by casey reas.