GENESIS
How can art and mathematics reveal the structures that connect human experience, the living world, and technology? Can worldbuilding make these relationships tangible, transforming how we understand ourselves and our participation in a larger whole?
Genesis is an art–science transmedia venture with an institutional program and scientific research at its core. It investigates the relationship between self, nature, and technology. Its Founding Scientific Collaborator is mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. The project brings artistic practice into dialogue with mathematical inquiry to examine how patterns, memory, and forms of interdependence emerge across biological, technical, and social systems.
Mathematics provides a language for exploring these relationships: the recurrence of structures across different scales, the emergence of collective order, and the thresholds at which a system changes state. Artistic practice gives these questions spatial, material, and experiential form. Together, they open an inquiry into how we perceive coherence, attribute meaning, and encounter dimensions of existence that exceed individual understanding.
Unfolding across three interconnected acts, Genesis develops this inquiry through live performance, a touring group exhibition, and an interactive digital world. Each act carries forward the contributions of artists and scientists while introducing different conditions for participation. Bodies, artworks, technologies, and environments interact within a shared world whose evolution is shaped by those who enter it.
Works of this scale rarely find structures that can sustain them. Genesis is built on a worldbuilding system that persists beyond any single presentation, from which artworks, performances, and digital experiences continue to emerge. A shared protocol for intellectual property connects authorship, rights, and participation as the world develops, so that those who build it share in the value they create. Creators Fund was founded to build this infrastructure.