The Emerge Team at Play (and Work)

On November 20, the core Emerge team took a break from our work on Emerge 2015 to begin planning for Emerge 2016. We wanted to try something a little bit

Deadline – September 15, 2014 | Midnight Arizona Time – IN FLUX Cycle 5 brings together eleven organizations representing seven Valley cities and towns seeking local artists to create temporary public artworks in a wide variety of locations and media.

During their Digital Tabernacle performance at Emerge 2014: The Carnival of the Future, ministers Marcel O’Gorman and Ron Broglio donned Autographer lifelogging cameras hacked to look like crosses. The cameras automatically snapped still photos

What do engineering and theatre have in common? They share a focus on performance – the performance of materials, technologies, processes and systems, argues Lance Gharavi, an associate professor in ASU’s

Do you sleep with your smartphone under your pillow? Play Candy Crush during class? Fail to return text messages from your family and friends? If you have digital sins to

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

Tibetan Buddhist monks Geshe Jampa and Ngawang Lama visited Emerge 2014: The Carnival of the Future to create a traditional Sand Mandala at the ASU International Artist Residency Program Gallery at

Phoenix’s public radio station, KJZZ 91.5 FM, filed a report on Emerge 2014: The Carnival of the Future just a few hours before we opened our doors on Friday, March

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