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The project links the earliest theories, such as astrology, to the latest scientific visualisation systems, in examining the urge to understand our environment, the desire to predict, recognise patterns and impose structure and the limits of this ambition. By exploring our desire to abstract and order our environment it questions how much control is possible over complex systems such as the natural environment or the economy. The project explores an important issue for the 21st century, that systems which we have created, such as the economy, the latest computer systems, genetically modified organisms, or even ideas, can emerge their own behaviour and eventually transcend their origins and may already be more powerful than we can control.
