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Complexity theory is not new to art or to our culture. It migrated from computer science and biology to economics and art and, with the advent of the world wide web, it invaded our collective subconscious. Analogous seeks to support complexity-driven art and artists playing under this conceptual umbrella of "Interaction Art". Progress occurs by metaphor and analogy: Their hope is (by bringing together people and projects irrespective of media and genre) to enable philosophical crosstalk.

Current Analogous Projects include Action Potential (biomedical performance art exploring the concept of free will, in-development), Bread (a network-art community project donating to Millennium Villages), Epic Doom (generative video illustrating societal ills as emergent phenomena, in-development), LikeLike (a tape label and experiment in gift economy), Metis (an on-stage interaction between prepared text and improvised sound), NoPurchaseIsTheNecessary (a found-material easter-egg hunt turned microeconomy), Picky Sticky Pollen (colorful lawn game modeling living ecologies), ScrapCycle (a series of upcycled music performances and barter experiments), and Tin Can Telewalk (participatory soundwalk utilizing tin can telephones).

Analogous events and performances have been reviewed in The Wire, Make Magazine, Time Out New York, and The New York Times. They received a Village Voice Best-of-NYC Award in October 2008 for "Best Arts Organization Centered Around Recycling". For more information about Analogous and current Analogous projects, visit http://AnalogousProjects.org.

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Torino:Margolis

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Torino:Margolis is a performance art team that smashes through physical and psychological barriers, using invasive electronics and biomedical tools. They explore the idea that the self is transient, elusive, and modular by playing with the notions of control and free will. Their extraction of physiological processes concretizes these concepts and presents them as questions to the viewer -- not to illustrate the mechanism, but to explore the human experience.

(Torino:Margolis are 2009-2011 Interaction Art Incubator Fellows. The Analogous Projects Interaction Art Incubator is part artist-residency, part laboratory-fellowship. This intensive two-year program provides fellows with technical assistance, conceptual development, fund development, project management, inclusion in curated exhibitions and performances, and other forms of ongoing support. Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. For more information about this program, please send your letter of inquiry to Marie at Marie@AnalogousProjects.org.)

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