Swarm Exhibition

Swarm Exhibition
Swarm brings together works that express swarming as a social effect generated by masses of objects, images, data, or organisms.

The fascination with swarming reflects a contemporary view of nature, politics, and social life-one that favors unplanned and decentralized modes of organization.

The exhibition combines emerging and historically significant artists, revealing a series of unlikely and previously unimagined relationships between artists who have not been connected before.

These artists include Ronan + Erwan Bouroullec, Mark Bradford, Fernando + Humberto Campana, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Peter Kogler, Julie Mehretu, Paul Pfeiffer, C.E.B. Reas, Matthew Ritchie, Michal Rovner, Jason Salavon, Shahzia Sikander, Sarah Sze, Fred Tomaselli, Siebren Versteeg, and Yukinori Yanagi.

Swarm theory is an idea animating contemporary art, science, design, digital media, and social theory.

"Swarm logic" is seen in works that use vast numbers of small parts to create systems whose final behavior or effect cannot be wholly predicted.

Artists working with computers and new media construct rules that draw together data and generate behaviors that evolve over time.

Sculptors and painters create structures and patterns based on the interrelationships and inherent properties of individual