PAL CHAOS Labs

PAL CHAOS Labs bring together artists, scientists, architects, writers and academics, to explore a new grammar of interactivity through existing and emerging technologies. PAL's pioneering European Multimedia Labs (1997-2000) and subsequent Lit Labs (2001) provided the initial research which led to the first international PAL CHAOS Colloquium in the UK in 2002. The colloquium focused on three topics - self-organisation, embodied knowledge and making things small - inspired by Professor George Whitesides, who also gave the key-note speech to fourteen established artists, architects and scientists. The group debated the possibilities of disruptive technologies, complexity theory, and the potential of nano technologies on the future and in relation to their own practice.

The colloquium was devised by Caroline Nevejan, PAL's Research Associate, the artist Sissel Tolaas, and PAL Director Susan Benn. PAL's preliminary research for CHAOS Labs was funded by Columbia University School of the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. The CHAOS Lab Colloquium was supported by London Arts.

Lab Co-directors
Sissel Tolaas
Caroline Nevejan
Susan Benn

chaos@pallabs.org

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