P(destiny | origin)

First Prize Winner Emerging Artist Award 2026

Ivan Lengyel
P(destiny | origin)
Multi-screen interactive digital installation with three 7-inch screens, LiDAR audience tracking, generative audio, microcomputer and custom aluminium support
35 × 150 × 30 cm
$9500

Three screens stand side by side, running as one live generative system, each showing a turning three-dimensional volume traced by hundreds of fine lines. Each line is a walker, beginning from a point assigned by chance and moving through an invisible field where some paths open more easily than others.
From almost every angle the lines remain unresolved. Seen from two precise viewpoints, they resolve into a face. Each screen holds a different pair, never visible at once. The clean image is the exception; the larger system is the tangle.
The work draws on statistical physics as a language of movement and spread. Random walkers are real mathematical figures: points moving step by step through chance and probability. Here, each is also pulled toward its start, turning the model toward social life: conditions we are born into, paths made available, and how far we can move. The same effort can open a door from one position and meet a wall from another.
As viewers move, they disturb the walkers; lines follow, bend and leave traces. When they stop, the faces begin to settle. The viewer is not outside the system but another walker: moving from one position, pulling lines, and seeing from there.
P(destiny | origin) asks what is lost when a life is read from one angle. Stories of merit flatten trajectories into a line from effort to reward, making structural limits feel like private failure. It does not deny effort. It shows that effort comes after the draw.

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