Hivemind

Hives are a testament to unity and what can grow when like-minded beings come together as one under a common goal. Maryam Tariq’s Hivemind (2022) refers to swarm intelligence, the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized systems, whether natural or artificial. For example, the apparent consciousness of colonies of social insects, such as ants and bees. Never before has the human race mirrored the behavior of a hive in the way it does now, in the digital age. Big Data has become big business. Thanks to the Internet, humanity is able to disseminate information at the speed of light all over the globe, and organize at an unprecedented level.