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

An interactive wood sculpture created by ASU’s Thad Trubakoff that presented a breathtaking collision of traditional craft with digital sensors, motors, and microcontrollers.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Your identity is shaped by your place, as well as who you’re with and your cultural connections.  As our technology changes, the line between what is you and not you

When our robots become as integral to your perceptions of “me” as your hand or your arm, you will remember Emerge 2014. That’s the time you first saw amazing musicians

Imagine that at birth, your genome is sequenced and – forever after – disease prevention, detection and treatment is unique to you. Forget routine annual checkups. You now have continuous

Spotted in the halls of ASU’s Digital Culture program: Uncle Sam Needs You…to fly a quadcopter at Emerge. If you’re interested in gaming and want to be quadcopter pilot on

What does Emerge have to do with ethics? The question came up today, because the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics is one of our major partners. The answer can’t be

Emerge needs 5 volunteers to learn how to remotely fly quadcopters for our event on Friday, March 7th, as part of a performance combining aerial drones, experimental music and projection

Do you have any idea how complicated it is to figure out how to rig an aerial trapeze inside a circus tent? On a rubble-strewn vacant lot in downtown Phoenix?