Emerge 2014 challenges engineers, artists, scientists, designers, story tellers, ethicists, humanists, makers and futurists to explore questions of individuality, autonomy and freedom, as well as control, automation and facelessness.

This is an amazing process to watch, check it out: http://links.asu.edu/CSPOemerge

Can interspecies musician David Rothenberg outrun a swarm of drones while carrying a tune on his soprano saxophone? Check out an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the madcap rehearsals for “Drone

We are increasingly outsourcing our identities to computers and algorithms, argues Ed Finn, Director of ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination and Assistant Professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and

Emerge co-director Joel Garreau and technical wizard/drone pilot Tain Barzso visited AZTV’s “Morning Scramble” today to talk about Emerge’s Carnival of the Future on Friday, March 7, and about our

Future Face Lounge is a space where participants define their own histories and forecast their futures through face recognition, touchscreens, sensors and projection technology. Can technology help us break free

Life gets intensely personal at national borders, writes Bruce Sterling, science fiction author, design critic and our very own Visionary in Residence at ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. In a

Julie Akerly, an MFA candidate in ASU’s School of Film, Dance and Theatre, presents a preview of “The Still,” a performance that explores what happens when the exchange of knowledge, ideas, words,

Peek behind the scenes of a typical Emerge: The Carnival of the Future rehearsal with aerialists, dancers, professor Lance Gharavi of ASU’s School of Film, Dance and Theatre and…a Baxter

This morning we visited a rehearsal at ASU’s Department of Film, Dance and Theatre with aerialists, dancers and the Baxter industrial robot. Can ASU theatre professor Lance Gharavi and robotics

Bruce Sterling and his collaborators at the Turin Maker Lab have been hard at work on their Emerge project, “My Future Frontier/Mi Futura Frontera.” Take a peek behind the scenes!

Are we on the verge of the triumph of the individual? Will the future be dominated by systems where self-determination is only a memory? Or, inevitably, is something more complicated

What’s the best way to make music with drones? According to David Rothenberg, an experimental musician, professor of philosophy and music, and visiting artist for Arizona State University’s Emerge 2014: The

The Mandala – Tibetan sand painting – is a quintessential expression of Buddhist art constructed from dyed sand particles, and a centuries-old visual art form. It represents rich and rational

Hosted by the Synthesis Center and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering Learn more Join researchers from Concordia University (Montreal), the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Southern