Emergence: Hidden States and Other Worlds is an experimental research project into technological systems whose operation is based on the continuous re-differentiation of interconnected systems, making visible what often escapes formalisation. The work is a generative installation operating across projection mapping, video, and 3D prints.

Different layers of data are fed into the system: WiFi signals that detect the presence of people in the room, dark matter signal data built from real observations of the southern hemisphere sky by the Dark Energy Survey, data from bot activities across the internet, a quantum algorithm, and satellite imagery of the monte nativo in Argentina, the native forest and scrubland of the country’s interior, an ecosystem under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion. This multi-output system offers a visualisation of the complexity through which a single movement is infinitely connected to everything around it. Each form it produces appears as one of six slices of a Calabi-Yau manifold, a six-dimensional geometric structure from string theory, whose hidden dimensions are thought to underlie the physical universe, projected here into three dimensions.