On a frame-by frame basis, these digital Swarm Study iterations examine the complex patterns of movement inherent to the swarming organism. Each ‘flock’ is a unique, generative …

Since 2007, Random International’s Swarm Study series has experimented with collective behaviour and the human instinct to engage emotionally with possibly sentient, artificial …

The latest work in this series, Swarm Study / XI has been developed especially for the space in the Park Hyatt. For the first time, the swarm lives within a circular formation within this new, …

Since 2010, RANDOM INTERNATIONAL's ongoing Swarm Studies have been exploring the intelligence in motion of self-organising systems through increasingly dematerialised, sensory …

Since 2007, Random International’s Swarm Study series has experimented with collective behaviour and the human instinct to engage emotionally with possibly sentient, artificial …

Swarm Study XI, 2016 Fragments, 2016 Blur Mirror, 2016 Swarm Study /IX, 2016 Self and Other, 2016 Small Study Far, 2016 Everything and Nothing, 2016

Recent paths of inquiry into distributed intelligence and spontaneous order have shed new light of the idea of the swarm, imbuing it with a sense of ambiguity. The swarm in the glass is tighter …

Random International’s ongoing Swarm Studies explore the intelligence in motion of self-organising systems through increasingly dematerialised, sensory environments.

RANDOM INTERNATIONAL’s Swarm Study series is an ongoing exploration of collective behaviour — a sustained interest of the studio since its inception. The installations simulate …

Commissioned for the Victoria and Albert Museum, Swarm Study / III translates collective behavioural patterns found in nature into moving light. Though apparently inanimate, the …