KURATOR  curating + research

José Manuel Berenguer, exhibited as part of Silicon Dreams

Date:

2008

Electronic and computational emulation of synchronic behavior of SouthEastern Asiati Fireflies. Its electronic and computational fireflies complete networks that reach stable beating patterns after have been following chaotic paths through finite sets of instable beating patterns. Chaotic beating patterns emerging from synchronisation gives complex visual and sonic rythms. Luci: No Name and No Memory has two parts — analogue composed of 60 electronic elements arranged on a surface of MDF and the other digital composed of 64 computing element. If the lighting is intense, each electronic object flashes independently, but when the quantity of light drops beneath a certain level, the system tends to stabilise, forming areas where the objects begin to flash in sync at a certain point. The computing agents imitate that behaviour as a large projection in space. The individual conduct of each agent, whether analogue or computational, gives rise to Luci: No Name and No Memory, which is nothing but an unexpected emergence.