Ian Cheng

2016

Boek; 137 p ill

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Tent. Zurich, Migrosmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, 20-02-2016, 16-05-2016. - Mongrafie toont werk van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Ian Cheng (Los Angeles 1984) waarin de toepassing van simulatie in een artificiële omgeving centraal staat. - The work of New York-based artist Ian Cheng explores the nature of mutation and the capacity of humans to relate to change. Drawing on video game design, improvisation and themes of Darwinian brutality, Cheng has developed so-called "live simulations," living virtual ecosystems that begin with basic programmed properties, but are left to self-evolve without authorial control or end. Cheng's simulations often model the dynamics of fictional or imagined organisms and ecologies, but they do so with the unforgiving causality found in nature itself. Cheng 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.

Located in: CHENG, IAN

ISBN: 978-3-03764-471-3

VUBIS: 2:101387