ALT -Ecologies of Experience: Systems & Art- Artmaking can conjure images of painting, sculpture, or video. These forms are static, unchanging. What happens when we introduce systems into art? Systems rely on a collection of interdependent parts that follow the principle ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ (emergence). These parts are always in flux and result in an artwork that varies over time and by its environment. Much like natural ecosystems, we can’t isolate them to one single object (a tree does not make an ecosystem). It may be hard for us to imagine an artwork as a system. How do we display it? How can we draw meaning from it if it never holds the same form? This talk will present examples of system-based art while unpacking how the process of experiencing the artwork reveals new ways of understanding it.