Our Research
The CoEmergence Lab is a practice-based research lab dedicated to exploring the creative possibilities of encounters between humans, computational systems and the more than human world.
Interactions of Living and Machine Agencies in Arts and Media
Our core research concerns how we can integrate humans, non-human organisms and the natural environment with computational systems in order to enhance creative exploration and expression. We want to develop artworks, systems and frameworks wherein non-human organisms and ecosystems interact with humans and computational technologies in order to yield novel art and media experiences that are heretofore unavailable. We take a research creation approach, that is, we develop artworks, in a myriad of forms, including (but not limited to):
- – Hybrid AI-biological systems
- – Nonhuman-computer interfaces
- – Bio-art and biological media
- – Artistic and design experimentation with bioenergy technologies
- – Ecology and Environmental Arts
- – Exploring complexity, emergence, collective intelligence and self-organization from artistic and cultural perspectives
- – Critical engagement with artificial intelligence technologies
- – Machine creativity: applications of AI and machine learning to arts and design contexts; generative and artificially creative systems for sonic, visual and embodied expression
- – Sensory and embodied interfaces in computational environments for installation, performance and musical expression
- – Computational media and landscape practices