The Butterfly Effect
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EVENT
Type:
presentation
Keywords:
chaos / media art / technique
Creation Date:
1996-01-23
Language:
English
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Predictability: Can the fluttering of a butterfly's wing in Brazil cause a tornado in Texas? asked Konrad Lorenz in 1949, in a lecture held two days before New Year's Eve at "The American Association for the Progress of Science", a few steps from the White House. The story refers to how the smallest effects can be transformed into critically strong ones under predisposed conditions, and can call forth enormous consequences, and as well, how these are not by chance, but rather predeterminable, at least those critical points, and those potential effects are estimable. This chaos is not some irrational phenomenon; moreover, with chaos theory, it was transferred from the irrational to the explainable world. (T.V.)
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Original Title (English):
The Butterfly Effect
Location:
Budapest, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle
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