analogous projects

www.analogousprojects.org

'Our aim is to integrate mathematical or biologically-born concepts with intuitively-guided acts of expression to generate novel ways for people to perceive, gather, transact, communicate, collaborate, and connect. We hope to highlight the moment of interaction, examine the nature of interconnectivity, and exhibit the collaborative process. '

'Our guiding principle is the inherent intelligence of the superorganism -- the observation that independently functioning units (citizens, insects, genetic traits, musical notes, party guests, technological devices) operating within a shared context will create a non-hierarchical emergence "greater than the sum of its parts".'

'Through the act of weaving scientific logic with artistic creativity, our curators design catalysts and contexts in order that interaction experiments be conducted and, subsequently, exhibited from a systems-level perspective. Current Analogous-supported programs include Scrapcycle (a series of found-material music performances and experiments in barter economy), Mētis (an on-stage interaction between prepared text and improvised sound), likelike (a tape label and experiment in gift economy), nopurchaseisthenecessary (an experiment in the extension of a found-material's use-value to exchange-value), and Bread (a network-theory project donating to Millennium Villages).'