Details

Subject(s)

• Cheng, Ian 1984-—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Video installations (Art)—Switzerland—Zurich—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Computer art—Switzerland—Zurich—Exhibitions [Browse]

Editor

• Gygax, Raphael [Browse]
• Munder, Heike, 1969- [Browse]

Curator

Gygax, Raphael [Browse]

Host institution

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Contains

Cheng, Ian, 1984- Works. Selections. [Browse]

Summary note

The work of the American artist Ian Cheng (b. 1984, Los Angeles, lives in New York) explores the nature of mutation and people?s capacity to relate to change. Drawing on principles of video game design, improvisation, and Darwinian brutality, Cheng has developed so-called 'live simulations,' virtual living ecosystems that begin with basic programmed properties, but that are left to evolve without authorial control or aim. His simulations model the dynamics of often imaginary organisms and ecologies, but do so with the unforgiving causality found in nature itself. Cheng, who studied cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley, describes his simulations as akin to a 'neurological gym': a format for viewers to deliberately exercise the feelings of confusion, anxiety, and cognitive dissonance that accompany the experience of unrelenting change.

Notes

• Translation from German.
• "This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Ian Cheng: Forking at Perfection at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, February 20 - May 16, 2016"--Page 133.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Consciousness 2.0: about the live simulations by Ian Cheng / Raphael Gygax
• Forking at perfection / Ian Cheng
• Archaeology of consciousness: an introduction to Julian Jaynes's The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind / Franziska Bigger
• Reality blinders, systemic truth portals, that which does not go away / selection by Ian Cheng.

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Other title(s)

Forking at perfection

ISBN

• 9783037644713 (hard cover)
• 3037644710 (hard cover)

OCLC

958298413

RCP

H - S

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