Performances and Magic
Live feed of Sand Mandala
This is an amazing process to watch, check it out: http://links.asu.edu/CSPOemerge
The Machine Stops Without You
Designed to create a moiré pattern effect, ASU MFA student Thad Trubakoff’s “Sirens” is a kinetic wall sculpture that reinvents the kaleidoscope by generating intense visual and audial effects as it
You and the Computer You’re Wearing
How will ubiquitous computing – wearable, intelligent, integrated with your nervous system – change how you define “me”? What if the blind could see and the deaf could hear through
Digital Tabernacle
Lock away your (de)vices and immerse your soul in contemplation. The Ministers of the Digital Tabernacle will inspire you to observe a period of digital abstinence and confess your digital
Morphing Our Identities
Future Face Lounge is a space where participants define their own histories and forecast their futures, and a new community is formed. When visitors enter Future Face Lounge, they reveal
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
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
Where You Are Is Who You Are
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 the Robots Give Voice to Our Songs
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
When Medicine Becomes Extremely Personal
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