Art meets science as Brisbane-based artist Briony Barr joins forces with physicist Professor Andrew Melatos in an innovative collaboration when the World Science Festival returns.
Drawing on Complexity: Experiment 9 will invite people to arm themselves with seven metres of colourful tape to stick on 3D surfaces with other people simultaneously.
Drawing on Complexity: Experiment 9 is an immersive installation where artist Briony Barr invites people to take part with coloured tape.
“It’s like a big board game meets a science experiment,” Barr said.
“I’ve always been interested in what emerges in a collaborative drawing process.
“It’s a long-term art investigation combining the collaboration of drawing and thinking of complex systems and simple rules and people following simple rules over time.”
All participants would learn a simple algorithm before contributing and the work would change over time as more people became involved.
Artist Briony Barr has been fascinated by the results of the experiment every time.
Barr said each time she did the experiment she would change the rules, and it was always surprising how different interactions occurred during the project.
“You try to think through the rules and plan, but you can never predict what people are going to do,” she said.
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