Diploma work – What is the Nature of Reality, Part 2

Interactive installation, 2012

The seemingly unpredictable, chaotic behavior of a complex system is caused by initial conditions. It turns out that the whole universe is in a state of chaos. Chaos can be described as apparently random behavior with purely deterministic causes – misunderstanding of rules and behavior (cause and effect). Thus, if our world is so deterministic, why it seems to be managed by coincidence so often?

The systems with simple rules can behave surprisingly complicated – it means that the knowledge of rules is not the same as the ability of prediction the future-behavior. Understanding does not mean the same as conquering. And yesterday everything went just as usual. The science has traditionally been trying to look for the arrangement, but concludes that chaos can provide other advantages – for example it can adapt to external influences faster and with less effort. The secret remains, how could the one world – managed by a few simple laws – allows the emergence of so many diverse conditions and structures?

An interactive installation based on an optical illusion – seemingly random objects in space turn into to well-arranged still life (from the certain point of camera-view). The viewer became a part of this still-life during watching the life stream.

See PART 1.

* Title taken from Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Slovak title translation: A ešte včera to bolo ako inokedy (Alica v krajine zázrakov, preklad: Juraj Vojtek, Viera Vojtková, 2010)

 live-stream running inside the installation