Festival Forte opened its gardens and collided in breathtaking sequence, presenting  a world of complex patterns, produced by simple rules, giving life to strange and unpredictable behaviour. We celebrated the world of ‘Cellular Automata’ where science merges with art and art becomes science. 

As in our own lives, Cellular Automata outcomes are not predictable. We start in a simple unknown state and through multiple cycles we become something that we can never predict. At Festival Forte life reflects this beautiful chaos.

We are the explorers, the place-makers, the creative, culture engineers, driven by a desire to fill the void left by an over-saturated world of normalization, fusing music, art, nature and code and we invite you on this incredible journey into the unknown, driven by forces unrelated, unattached and unpredictable. Let the music and art lead you to explore possibilities never before foreseen.

Prepare for the possibility of surprise and the unexpected, where all elements fuse into magic other worldliness. Here the natural chaos rules! Sending you off in another direction that you could never see, sometimes never imagine.

With Cellular Automata some decisions spawn affects that are simple and are unrelated to the whole, some are highly integrated and interwoven to other parts in a very complex fashion, every cell plays a role in creating the next generation. Enabling glimpses of the past and foundations for the present. The present determines the future the rest is up to you.

Step inside the micro, fluctuate between the binary, let the automata move you into spatially extended visual systems. Let the artworks fuel your imagination and guide you on trips into the depths of the unknown into the galaxies of the generative Forte universe, let the Forte take you over!