Diverge is a movement-based audiovisual laser installation by Eric Cheung, Cristian Gonzalez, and Jeff Hamada. The project utilizes motion-tracking data to generate dynamic generative visuals projected in sync with graphic lasers.

We make around 35,000 conscious decisions in a single day, each leading us down a distinct path, ultimately creating a divergent reality. Whether significant or trivial, these decisions possess the power to shape the layers of our existence in various subtle and profound ways. The results of these choices become increasingly complex as we intersect with others who are also constantly generating their own web of possibilities.

For the purposes of this project, we have limited our exploration of this concept to the infinite choices a dancer makes within their own body. How a single shift of a joint or limb has the potential to trigger a cascade of subsequent movements. Choreography is the accumulation and repetition of these decisions which mirrors an individual's efforts to construct the best future for their own life. And yet, in dance as in life, as much as we may try to make the same choices or replicate an exact motion, it is never the same.

We make around 35,000 conscious decisions in a single day, each leading us down a distinct path, ultimately creating a divergent reality. Whether significant or trivial, these decisions possess the power to shape the layers of our existence in various subtle and profound ways. The results of these choices become increasingly complex as we intersect with others who are also constantly generating their own web of possibilities.

For the purposes of this project, we have limited our exploration of this concept to the infinite choices a dancer makes within their own body. How a single shift of a joint or limb has the potential to trigger a cascade of subsequent movements. Choreography is the accumulation and repetition of these decisions which mirrors an individual's efforts to construct the best future for their own life. And yet, in dance as in life, as much as we may try to make the same choices or replicate an exact motion, it is never the same.