Arts Thread

Why does something exist rather than nothing? Why do so many shapes and patterns appear in nature? At first glance, the universe may seem chaotic, but beneath this apparent chaos lie numerous regularities and laws that create patterns and structures that can be described mathematically. The British mathematician Alan Turing‘s theory of morphogenesis, detailed in his 1952 work „The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis,“ explains how an organism‘s physical form develops and changes over time through biological processes. MorphoGenesis illuminates Turing‘s discoveries by exploring the emergence of organic forms and the recurring patterns found in nature through an experimental approach. Through this exploration, a new creation story unfolds within a „digital primordial soup“, where new digital beings emerge step by step. Two distinct visual languages were developed to represent these findings: colorful visual worlds from the „digital petri dish“ and black-and-white illustrations for the schematic representation of the individual stages of development. To create a spatial distinction between these two areas, the flaps created by the French-Fold binding were folded in.