Month: February 2014
You Are the City You Build
Ever consider crowd-sourcing the design of a building? Of a city? The voices of a choir and the stones of a building have much in common. At Emerge 2014, join
When Your Dance Is Controlled by Your Phone
John Cage Meets “A Chorus Line” You think social media is pervasive now? Explore what happens when the exchange of knowledge, ideas, words, and emotions in social media is transformed into
You Are What You Play
The STEAM Carnival, based in Los Angeles, hooks players with high-energy amusements that leverage their interests in music, fashion, and games to expose them to the STEAM disciplines – science,
There Is Danger
“There Is Danger” is an Americana dream-pop band which brims with “lush bedroom-pop heartbreakers suitable for your next 4 a.m. drive out of town.” You can hear the wanderlust in
Compassion, Universal Responsibility and the Resolution of Our Conflicts in a Sacred Grain of Sand
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
Architecture By Everyone
An experiment in crowdsourced architecture masterminded by ASU’s John Ball provided a glimpse of a radically democratic urban future where citizens have the power to hack and remake their lived
Carnival Games of the Future
The STEAM Carnival team from California provided an experience of the future of play in their booth featuring face tracking, digital image distortion, and motion sensing technology. Does play become
Wearable Electronics
Students from ASU’s Center for Cognitive and Ubiquitous Computing demonstrated how prototype wearable electronics could assist people with disabilities, or people recovering from serious injuries. Are we hurtling toward a
Future Face Lounge
ASU’s Steven Yazzie confronted carnival-goers with this question: How much do our visible identities − race, gender, ethnicity, social class − affect the way we are conceptualized and treated by
Sirens
An interactive wood sculpture created by ASU’s Thad Trubakoff that presented a breathtaking collision of traditional craft with digital sensors, motors, and microcontrollers.
My Future Frontier / Mi Futura Frontera
An interactive installation designed by science fiction legend Bruce Sterling and collaborators from the Turin Maker Lab that considered the significance of national borders for individual identity.
myHealth Personalized Preventative Medicine
A working prototype of a future health clinic that challenged visitors to ponder the incredible ethical challenges we will face when we can precisely predict the time and cause of
The Still
A dance performance created by ASU’s Julie Akerly that explored the increasing centrality of texting and social media as tools for creating, nurturing, and sustaining relationships.
When Our Most Physically Articulate Humans and Our Most Physically Articulate Robots Perform Together
Our man Baxter is supposedly the world’s first industrial robot capable of being taught to dance by two clowns and an aerialist. We shall see if this is true inside
Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra
If the rousingly upbeat Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra doesn’t have you “shaking your tailfeathers,” as the band likes to say, please consult your coroner. The group featured under our Emerge 2014