Life, Personality, Art and Memory are created by the dynamic interplay of two forces:

Simplicity and Complexity.

Welcome To Small-Infinities: An informal lab exploring the interwoven paths of Simplicity and Complexity. 

Tim Smith mixes concepts in Design, Cognitive Psychology, Software, Digital Arts, and Photography to explore the dynamic balances and transformations between complexity and simplicity that generate our experience, memory and art.

Featured Project: Light Runner. Light Runner is a software environment used to explore the simplicity and complexity of memory by combining images (personal photography and other sources), and journaling (Personal writing, fiction and nonfiction) to create richly interwoven interactive presentations of each. More… 

“From the exhilarating potential of complexity arises the profound eloquence of simplicity. From the profound eloquence of simplicity, the exhilarating potential of complexity.”

The Mission of Small Infinities

The Art of Small Infinities

The Ways of Small Infinities

The Psychology of Small Infinities

Small-Infinites has a set of blogs called “Surfaces.” These are explorer outposts, constructed at scenic locations discovered in the exploration of the concepts important to small infinities. My hope is that each Surface is a place from which I and others can stand and look around, take in the sights of the landscapes that emerge from understanding ourselves as dynamic complex systems, as infinite systems, as Small Infinities! Here is one.

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Outposts along the Paths of Small Infinities: #1

The Way of Dynamic Complex Systems

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Systems have Parts and the Parts interact.

Some Systems are Complex. Complex Systems have many Parts, interacting in many ways.

Some Systems are so Complex that they have a VERY LARGE number of parts interacting in an infinite number of ways, generating an infinite range of behaviors and states. These are Infinite Systems.

Each individual infinite system is a Small Infinity.

Humans are Infinite Systems

Humans are Small Infinities

Welcome to Small-Infinities