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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

Hosted by the Center for Nanotechnology in Society Filmmaker Doug Wolens will discuss the making of his documentary The Singularity, which refers to a point in the future when we create computers with greater-than-human intelligence, bio-engineer

Learn more Explore the intersection of cutting-edge technology, live performance and interactive storytelling with the Wonder Dome. Created by Center for Science and the Imagination research fellow Daniel Fine, the Wonder Dome

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Nanotechnology in Society and the Transhumanism Initiative of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict Learn More In the future, will we create

The Carnival of the Future Friday, March 7, 6:00 – 11:00 pm Downtown Phoenix: 3rd Street and Garfield Street Learn more at http://emergeasu.wpengine.com Must See Monday: Ed Finn presents “News

Human selfhood isn’t about essence, argues ASU’s Brad Allenby, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics and one of the co-directors of Emerge. It’s about information. We are an information-processing species;