Research

This page compiles the academic reports, poster presentations, and computational notebooks documenting the Sympoietic Art Organism experiment. Initiated at the 2025 Complexity Global School, this study tracks a collaborative art community as a closed dynamical system to observe cultural evolution in real-time.

Our quantitative and qualitative findings are organized below. You can view each resource directly or download the documents:

NetSci 2026 Conference

Presentation

Research Poster

Growing a Sympoietic Art Organism: An Experiment Tracking the Micro-Dynamics of Cultural Evolution

The poster presented at the NetSci 2026 conference, outlining how we tracked the micro-dynamics of cultural evolution within a closed dynamical system through network analysis and visual motif mutation mapping.

Accepted Abstract

Conference Abstract

Growing a Sympoietic Art Organism: An Experimental Framework for Tracking the Micro-Dynamics of Cultural Evolution

The accepted abstract for the NetSci 2026 conference, outlining the experiment's core findings and network science methodologies.

CGS 2025 Reports

Project Report

CGS 2025 Project Report

Complexity Global School 2025 Project Report: Sympoietic Art Organism

The comprehensive project report documenting the methodology, network topology analysis, semantic analysis, and participant surveys from the CGS 2025 experiment.

Computational Notebook

Computational Explorations

Art organism computational explorations

A 94-page computational document containing the algorithms, data tables, and network visualizations used to assemble and analyze the dataset.