In 1983, five friends established a not-for-profit research center called the Gentle Wind Project to develop “healing instruments” that would “restore energetic balance.” In 2007 the State of Maine forced the Gentle Wind Project to disincorporate, after which they reformed as Family Systems Research Group and later I Ching Systems and Artworks. In 2007 their work was exhibited at Feature Inc., New York, and in 2023 Nick Irvin organized a retrospective exhibition at Theta, also in New York. Describing itself as an educational and research collective, I Ching Systems and Artworks attach a disclaimer to their products: “The technology and information from ICSA is for experimental purposes only.”
