The work was previously shown at the Barbican, London (2012);[1] MoMA, New York (2013); Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2015) and LACMA, Los Angeles (2015–2017).
[1][4] Motion sensors detect visitors' movements as they navigate through the darkened space, becoming "performers in this intersection of art, technology and nature".
[5] The work has been a celebrated Instagram theme:[6] the photo and video sharing platform has been cited as a major source of Random International's popular recognition.
[10] The group's first outdoor installation was Tower: Instant Structure for Schacht XII,[11] created for Urbane Künste Ruhr for the Ruhrtriennale 2013.
[12] The first permanent installation in the UK for Random International, Self & Other, is located on the South Bank arts and cultural area of the Albert Embankment.
[14] Commissioned by London's V&A, Swarm Study / III consists of four cubic forms suspended from the ceiling, each made of a grid of illuminated brass rods.
The exhibition takes its title from the video installation, Everything & Nothing (2016), which attempts to question humankind's place in a technological dynamic by showing a steamroller crushing everything in its path.
[22] Its work is held in the collections of MoMA, Sharjah Art Foundation, Yuz Museum, LACMA and London's V&A, where its Swarm Study / III is on long-term display.